back to the kremlin. to reclaim the presidency after a four year run as prime minister. there will be no second round runoff in the russian presidential vote as alleged even approaching claims almost sixty four percent of the votes and some really hard work lies ahead of the president elect joining us all the latest information from the heart of the russian capital. and its european pull it says praise russia's. progress states to say. oh joy the greece of pull details of the picture of russia over the service.

for pm in moscow i mattress or bring you our special election coverage here on r t putin heading back to the kremlin nearly all the votes counted and they confirm a landslide win for the prime minister for the next moves with live to manage square where sarah says he is standing by live for us so what's the premier getting up to the day after his win. well he's integration as russia's president will happen in two months from now on may seventh as far as we understand but certainly the important will become russia's president for the third time in twelve years and we understand that until then until he is integration until the day he will be officially sworn in as russia's president he also has

a lot of work to do first of all he is planning a meeting with all of his presidential rivals invited every single one of them we understand that almost all of them will be there apart from the ninety's are going to the communist party leader who. refuses to be at this meeting believing that the voting was illegitimate and he does not want to recognize the official results of this vote and i'd like to remind you of us that almost fifty percent forty five percent separating likely with a second place you know you got a few with what you can put in claiming a little more than sixty three percent that is sixty point six percent and you know you've got of standing at seventeen point two percent as an official result of your vote now last night after the polling stations closed all the close russia but even if you can match a crowd of more than one hundred thousand supporters right at the money or square just meters from where i'm standing right now beside the kremlin and he was very emotional thanking the crowd for the support which enabled him an astonishing

victory in the very first round. i see that we have one in an open and fair battle but this wasn't just the election of the president it was a test of political maturity and independence and we have shown that nobody can impose anything on it's we have shown that our people are able to tell the desire for renewal from political provocation aimed at ruling the russian state and is ripping power we have won with the support of the absolute majority of voters it's a clean victory we will work honestly and hard we will be successful and we call on everyone to unite over the interests of our people and our country i promised you we would you with. me and we might have the one. well such a result may seem a surprise to some but still this putin's victory is not

a surprise to the general population as he had been seen as the clear front runner of this presidential race we are waiting for that one hundred percent of the votes to be announced. next couple of days but this is really about russia has elected its president. so alexei although but one is in the bag for putin i guess the task now is to give attention to those who felt disaffected since december what is prudent planning to do if anything towards those members of the electorate. well that certainly will be a lot of hard work in that respect because we understand that still many people are unhappy with the result of this vote in fact the are planning huge opposition rally in the center of moscow to be held in about two hours from now certainly something we will be following closely and definitely the last three or four months have changed russia dramatically with tens of thousands of people hitting the street and also protesting online something unprecedented for this country ever since the

collapse of the soviet union ever since the early nineteenth ninety's russia has changed something acknowledged by most of the experts and. does not mean that you can now relax and celebrate he still has a lot of hard work ahead of him and i earlier i spoke to a political writer from the commerce and daily newspaper who is firmly in believe that putin's main bartold in fact lies ahead. this will be sort of a battle between the two alternative concepts of the state a relevant coherent development credit for myself i identified the first concept as putting land is a state which is north going back strong from the. time will be reforms which was started by alan gordon president me to be a. bit for us of what you lend reforms not to be restricted to

crops like skulk all they want to become capital cities to the world what they want russian political system to be transparent russia according to where they will get no nepotism and corruption and those people who support the idea they're still in the loyalty who would you put in but the ones who do believe in such a state and i think he can capitalize on that on the other hand this other alternative group of persons as well as russia probably who i associate with a deal just on they just need status quo they need just some ten dollars from the city they don't want any change because they believe that the stability piece is something which can make russia believe in it that statement state which is the road to nowhere so this is a very exciting moment. clearly this is the big decision time for like you to put in the new president elect now i would like to say that the opposition are not the

only ones who will be holding rallies across more school today as putin supporters will also be holding their rallies in support of putin and celebrating the astonishing between the first round our cameras and our reporters will certainly be that bring the latest pictures in the latest info to all of our viewers stay tuned with us absolutely artie's like terrorist rescue live for us outside the kremlin. well stay with us here on r t we've got the most comprehensive reaction and analysis of the presidential poll like in center outside the kremlin will be back in action from three pm g.m.t. with kevin no one any nice and now he's speaking live with people from across the political spectrum. little selection was overseen by tens of thousands of observers and as the results sink in they're now reporting back with their findings r.t.g. could greaves is live with us with the reaction to that so that they could break this down for us what their assessment. well you just tell you the promises about

amir hussein has made announcements almost allegations of electoral fraud saying that they be investigated thoroughly and they will tell guilty of committing such a crime will be dealt with according to the law this comes just off the pace the parliamentary association the parliamentary association for the council of europe sorry the european commission of observers they've come out and said that there was a marked improvement really in the parliamentary elections compared to that of the parliamentary to do for elections occurring in december which are wrought with allegations of elect. more damning words coming from the power see the organization for security and cooperation in europe where european mission state even though there's been some improvements such as the instruction of transparent ballot boxes and cameras in polling stations they are quote insufficient now these are the opinions of two bodies and organizations and we've talking just spoken to

another independent monitor the historic election day. we have seen several a irregularities several mistakes of the members of the polling spaces so it's normal you cannot prepare all people i mean there are thousands of people working on the electoral process. every brought them perfect so nothing is ideal but the irregularities or had to be home is not even here a good hour it is about those technical and organisational problems word seem a lot of the problems we have faced in european countries. now opposition to the opposition movement as well as independent party such as go last has stated that promise of an opinion probably did win the election again about fifty percent of the boys but here they read this. that's being flamed present.

presidential candidate joy when it comes to. their discontent he says that his campaign he received full of thousand complaints of violations something they are likely to take you to school also. well he has stated that they were. really allegations that taking place there results back in barry's central asia information about on video that has already been posted online this is on you shoot showing allegations of ballot stuffing taking place in the russian republic of dagestan in the north caucuses. saying this any acquired polling station counts towards the end result we are expecting more announcements on this issue and on election day results later in the day. earlier i was talking with those who were mean disaffected applied even after it's completed do you think we're going to

see more protests coming from this. oh yes there are preparations really in full swing going on behind me at the moment another demonstration is set to play take place about seven pm tonight moscow time now this is again another all position movement protest really echoing some of the sentiments we have heard before this knocks the presidential campaign. of parliamentary elections and of seed in action on behalf of authorities it hasn't died down but it's still very prominent even after these presidential elections there's also support for privacy and it's also manifested during the course of the presidential campaign that's not going anywhere either and tonight at the same time we expect to see nasheed loyal to the prime minister taking to the streets trying to drown out this opposition movement all right our king jacob riis live for us from central moscow thanks for

that update. europe woke up this morning to headlines criticizing putin's come back to the presidential post we go live now to brussels where our correspondent tess are still you know is live with more on this so test the how is europe digesting these results. well the european press and from the very start even of the campaigning of. putin they had been very critical of the fact that he had already had two terms as president then became prime minister however in general though the believe that him winning the presidential post is a foregone conclusion and so there is there is no arguments about how lever this is how they preserve the result for example here's a french newspaper you can see the big return of put into the kremlin but down here you see there are a lot of reports of widespread fraud it's the same with this paper you see here picture of putin it says here he got about the number here is sixty five percent of

the vote but they say the opposition is growing it would seem taller i would look at headlines from. the media in germany for example putin wins russia and the presidency a vote fraud claims or opposition calls for protests after putin where and also there's a feature on french paper talking about the what they call the dirty tactics used by used to discredit the opposition in russia so we can see that told is indeed very critical on the whole electoral process but i'd like to show you something interesting that you will see the juxtaposition of the european press when it comes to russian elections on this page is the spanish paper you see putin over here in the title reads the russians want a strong man however the article is very critical about putin his rules say that he has carried out any structural reform and that his management is marred by distrust secrecy a lack of transparency and then down here you see a picture of alexei volumnia who was as they say here is the symbol of the fight

against corruption so you see putin here in a volley here you this is the juxtaposition of how the european press see the russian election so they are having a very critical keeping a close eye on the opposition movement and how the russian leadership will react with. leaders waiting with comments here. well not yet not official comments at this point but he did say last week i did a u. summit that they would like to see what happens after the presidential elections and be able to reassess the positions especially on international issues where europe and russia cooperate with each other there was a statement issued by the foreign minister of germany on sunday to a local paper where the title read of the surveillance race is russian election protests against all we're just seeing the line the european press had already been reporting well he says it's an interesting enough positive sign that there are demonstrations of this size he doesn't think it's a one off action however he does say that whatever the outcome of russia's

elections germany will pursue the strategic relationship with russia and i think that is essentially going to be the reaction to readers seeing that no matter what they think will be the next president. they will still have to pursue the relationship with russia already. live with the reaction from europe very very much . well investors are now keen to line up for russia's next government and see how they're reacting to the by heading to the r t business desk where our teams create a network and he's joining us live hello matthew what we're seeing modest gains here in moscow overall russian markets have soared twenty four percent since december making it the world's best performing stocks market this year but let me put in this presidential victory is providing of perth of boost to the markets now but not much let's have a look at the figures the my six is out imports six percent the r.t.s. is gaining a quarter of a percent this hour traders here say that there could be another

a local rally over the next several days the full and here are the stocks movers on them isaac's this hour now we're seeing consumer and consumer stocks rallying the t.v. bank is adding over eight percent after all the shares of the markets following the biggest from rally in the week at the same time there's energy majors are off rosner than gas from are adding as well and that's not because of the presidential elections but also because the prices of oil are up now now let's head to europe where stocks are lower and reports show contraction in business activity in the region is finally. is fueling concerns that persisting problems in europe will remain and let's check on the currency rates now right now the ruble is losing both against the presence of the the greenback and the euro and investors

are showing lower. appetite for risk concerns but meanwhile the u.s. dollar is seeing some of profit taking against the european currency that's our business offbeat this hour it will be back with more back to you now. if i were much for that update. one of her putin's election pledges already being set in motion with a review of former oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky his conviction and outgoing leader dmitri medvedev wants a prosecutor general to report back with a month within a month he was once the country's richest man but jailed in two thousand and three arrested in two thousand and three jailed on tax evasion and fraud charges r.g.s. arena costar eva reports it's really come as a surprise to this that it december finally a person did say that he was considering pardon me because i don't go see if a key admitted his guilt and would do that if he won the presidential elections we

also know that this comes after a meeting president meeting with it had with the leaders of our registered and largely oppositional political parties here in russia and this is just a memory loosely they gave him and this is the people they have a guard as political prisoners and least and of course his lawyer has already said that it would have to judge the significance of this move once the investigation was completed for the post it was of course russia's richest man at some point and he was also the c.e.o. of the place which was the largest oil company in the country and then he was arrested in two thousand and three and prosecutors claimed that he still will from his own company worth around spain see seven billion dollars and that he wants to sell that product at higher prices because political see end up in conflict that ensue fraud trials and is expected to release him soon thousand and sixty his supporters have always said that the original charges were politically motivated

because because they don't post these to fund the russian opposition parties now this review applies to the second conviction which is based on embezzlement and financial crimes and if this is if that means that because the temple still will be a free man once again. how did i was his name came up repeatedly during this presidential campaign look how proper of a newcomer who played third place in the race promised to set the jail free if elected or he's losing friends was what i was more on what the billionaire turned politician thinks about the election outcome and the youngest man on the ballot the only independent took nearly eight percent of the vote now analysts say that it's points to the fact that south russian politics is hungry for competition and and experts also say that the fact that he took second in moscow st petersburg and he kept sort of important point to the fact that he appeals very heavily to a strong middle class professional demographic to his campaign he also says that

his talents as a builder of wealth also really appeals to people who especially in this economy are really looking for a lot of financial security and a leader a leader with a strong eye for that sort of thing now to build rob is listed in forbes as having eighteen billion dollars with holdings in gold aluminum and of course the new jersey nets he's the first foreign owner of an n.b.a. basketball team in history now aside from that his eight percent of the vote means he's now got a solid political foundation so he made the announcement he will be starting his own political party and possibly in the coming years maybe running for president would seem to actually congratulated him on his decisive numbers of proper of broadband and he also wished him the best of luck in his political future. more analysis i want to expect from right here putin's next six years in office i'm

joined by former moscow based australian diplomat gregory. he joins us live from tokyo so mr clark putin's been criticizing the past for failing to commit to a well defined economic strategy and we expect him to be more focused on that this start. we should be able to can never claim to be honest we should we believe has good. economic people not to be like who. so we acknowledge the russian economy is going to support. now of putin's previous term we saw it nine years of economic growth and growth but he did have as you measure likes a quitter and i aside now with conjuring out of the picture how do you think the economy will progress. in rule crisis and. with americans making a lot of first iran looks as though this is useful you heard from going to war and

that's the basis of your economy. there which you more through and you consider lower on the east and there is russian and. introduce a tariff policy. in this mood in manufacturing. and the success of you. where you are now in is hoping to win back favor with the c.i.s. states and spearhead what he refers to as a eurasian union what do you think russia could offer these countries to convince them to gravitate toward such a union and perhaps away from the e.u. which is courting some of them will certainly work commute making and i think it will china is good in that it's quite clearly european the whole concept of. european. food is actually really good recovery in the. mistaken economic policies will follow you know i think it's

a very good time very good chance for russia. is it the stronger presence and the stronger economic presence is now one of the several articles that putin wrote leading up to this election what it basically kind of like position papers he put forth he said he plans to allocate seven hundred eighty five billion dollars over the next ten years to build a strong professional army for russia what do you think of the military's challenges that face them right now that makes this such a big issue that putin wanted to talk about. when this is moved to another war in the caucasus i cannot see you and this is as good bigamy but i would suit is it me continuing to choose the german nation to do it did you go into the military hagerman you see the need for account of what was china it's because you saw a lot of it and i league russia should write something in the way they're trying to fool some in that sense so we will be an increase in the case we're now putin has

made promises on social issues saying he wants to end poverty by two thousand and twenty and boost teacher wages that's a big project or crying a lot of government spending do you think that can happen with so much economic uncertainty both in russia and just here in the globe who are using this newsgroup will use. you can you feel you can feed your program. would be distribution to who can control everything that's going on and there are people out there in the provinces who. do not really. i thought through towns move into who should be doing to improve the good of the people there is some of the reports we see of the pope with your materials in the rubble and alarm. our ally from tokyo former australian diplomat gregory clark thanks for your insight thank you. asia times correspondent pepe escobar in thailand says despite russia

making clear there are russian people making faired our choice he thinks the us is still on a mission to vilify the country if you're not part of the anglo american masters of the universe narrative you are by definition an enemy which it can be russia it can be venezuela can be quite cuba it could even be argentina because the not here is that it could be china or whatever but north korea of course syria whatever deployed its good all for. was reelected with sixty three sixty four percent he's going to be there for six years here at the outlying what is going to do in terms of international relations he published a very long article foreign policy last week was translated at least by some european you speak but not way american newspapers and that said you know it's logical a world close cooperation with pricks fighting need to encroachments which is

a very very strong preoccupation of most russian voters and trying to find a police official russia in this new emerging multiple or organise russia according to the script or still see here russia was not supposed to be some sort of act this was supposed to be a vassal state like a kind of huge set to ring round for washington interests and in fact russia got closer to ukraine and the brics came up they start to get the picture it's good that russia start to be more forceful among the centuries and stance as well they are forging people ready for this strategic partnership with germany faggoty of mature germany investing in russia and russia selling basically natural resources to germany and of course from the point of view of russia and this is absolutely a horrible story but there's nothing they can do about it. the biggest event in russian politics in the past four years being closely watched online r.t.

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just all american bases in crossed our bases are fine there are the noises our north is it doesn't bother us at all because they're all bases but for other people it's almost like a cancer here for these people a day since the end of world war two the spaces i've been. working here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. would be questions you know things that you did everything you needed.