back to the kremlin fighting here in the reclaims the presidency after a four year run as prime minister. the fate of russia's top job has been sealed with prime minister putin gaining almost sixty four percent of the votes and there is some really hard work which lies ahead for the president elect join us for all the latest information from the heart of the russian capital in just one minute. but you're paid bonuses russia is the school progress made since december culture push oh good be greece a bull tito's as we get the full picture of the o.o.b. over those of us. the opposition claims serious

violations vowing to bring people back to the streets to protest against the results. five pm in moscow i match reza with our special election coverage here on r t why did your putin heading back to the kremlin with nearly all the votes in the confirm a landslide win for the prime minister or what happens next we go to your money and square near the kremlin where he's alexei cesky is standing by so alexei what's the premier getting up to today the day after his win. well he is to be officially sworn in as the country's president only in two months now on the seventh of may that's when his integration integration will take place until then he will continue

his work as prime minister and that will be certainly a lot of work we know that like him or putin has already met all of his rivals in this political in the presidential race except the communist party leader gennady zyuganov who claimed that the vote was illegitimate and refused to acknowledge the result of this election and meetings were given if we can at this. at this meeting with the always political rivals now we understand that if you're doing this meeting putin actually approved of mr prosser idea to launch his own political party and said that should this happen then his party the united party will definitely call parade with the new movement of mikhail prokhorov the russian billionaire it's also the newcomer to politics and a first time presidential candidate now is the ground of as i've said refused to come to this meeting and i'd like to remind our viewers that. scored almost forty

five percent more than zyuganov standing at sixty three percent sixty three point six percent of the presidential election with this you've got of being at seventeen points to nevertheless still believe the vote is illegitimate and he's planning to hold a rally in moscow to support that claim last night in fact putin had a rally of his supporters of his own and a hundred thousand crowd was cheered by the prime minister he was very emotional thanking the people for their support and delighted with the fact that he has managed to achieve the victory in the very first round of the vote. we have won in the open and fear but this wasn't just the election. the president it was a test of political maturity and independence and we have shown that nobody can impose anything on us we have shown that our people are able to tell the desire for

a new rule from political publication aimed at ruling the russian state and those are being we have won with the support of the absolute majority of voters it's a clear and picturing 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 cause i do i promised you we would do it i mean and we have this one. we understand that more than ninety nine percent of the votes have been counted so far but announcing the total result with hundred percent of the votes is a purer mallets and now russia has elected its president and like you would put in i will be heading back to the government very soon i know now is coming. now it's incumbent on whom to deliver on his promises of reform and modernization what can we already see playing out for the coming years. well apart from the fact that this

election itself was very much different to what we used to see before and the fact that russia has been a completely different country over the past three and four months since the protests over the parliamentary vote we understand that of course the prime minister has promised a lot during his election campaign some promises probably could be very hard to keep raising pensions raising salaries of the teachers improving the economy even making it attempting to make it even more stable but probably the main challenge which lies ahead of the president elect is the dialogue with those people in the streets as certainly as we remember tens of thousands were protesting the results of the parliamentary vote something of course the authorities could not keep a closed eye on and definitely this is something which which the president elect must be dealing with in the nearest in the nearest future now earlier i spoke with a political writer with the congress on daily newspaper surrogates who believes that the real battle starts only now forty four that even

a pollutant. this will be sort of a battle between the two alternative concepts of the state a relevant coherent development credit for myself i've been to fry the first concept put in a lab we can lend is a state which is north going back for all from the movie reforms which was started by al gore and president i mean video. we do lend reforms not to be restricted to their crops like school or well they want to become capital system the way it works they want russian political system to be transparent as russia's record of me where they will be more liberties and you know corruption those people who support the at least idea there is still a loyalty who would you put in. to believe in such a state and i think he can be polite and on the other hand this other group of for

us to leave as well as russia probably. associated with a deal just they just need steve to school they need just some candles from the city they don't want any change because they believe that the stability of this is something which can make russia believe in that statement state which is the road to nowhere so this is very exciting moment. so definitely a time for big decisions for the prime minister called the president elect and in the meantime we understand that lots of rallies will be happening today in the russian capital and certainly will be covering all of them with our cameras and our extensive crew of reporters being at every scene to bring the latest details to our viewers indeed we will artie's a lot sarah shahi live for us outside of the crime on thanks for that report. let's stay with us here on r t as alexei said we have the most comprehensive reaction and analysis of the presidential vote. so remember our election center outside the

kremlin will be back in action from three pm g.m.t. with kevin no one added he said now wait speaking with people from across the political spectrum don't miss it. this election it was overseen by tens of thousands of observers and the results as the results sink in their reporting back with their findings or he could greaves as on top of the story live with what they're saying from pushkin square in central moscow so jacob break it down for us what is the assessment of the observers. well starting with the promise of enemy who should has just said on the situation it comes to allegations over let's. he said that they will be investigated fully hailed found of any wrongdoing moves you be pursued according to the law now we have had announcements from certain bodies european observer missions including pace the parliament parliamentary assembly of the council of europe now what they have stressed has been a real marts improvement in terms of the presidential elections compared to that of

the do more elections that occurred in december of course these rules with allegations of electoral who are slightly more critical inspired is that of the oas see the organization for security cooperation in europe and they said the happy some real positive noises including the implementation of where cameras we've seen this is stored over ninety thousand polling stations around the country allowing people streaming access to election day prestigious and also the implementation of ballot boxes see through ballot boxes to allow for more or less illegal activities or allegation left for electoral fraud to take place but he has stressed despite this it is quote insufficient now these are the opinions of two point three bodies and we've spoken to another independent observer for his thoughts. we have

seen several a irregularities several mistakes of the members of the polling stations so it's normal you cannot they prepare all people i mean there are thousands of people working on the electoral process. every program perfect so nothing is ideal but the irregularities or the people that's not even here a good part is by those technical and organizational problems words seem a lot of the problem. we have faced in european countries. i must stress even those within the ranks of the opposition here very said the promise of a new p.c. is secured in this presidential vote what they're disputing is that motion how much he one point. out spoken from the presidential candidate so that his be. here come out and said that those results. he's admitted the

promise of an appreciable redo presidential election he has claimed there were allegations the electoral fraud is comparable to the full thousand in total are saying they may perceive legal action in this area essential election commission will have to pay with god to each use video has been uploaded last alleging ballot stuffing taking place and in the russian republic. in the north says since then they said anybody who's taken in the police station will be an old i won't count to the end result. and jacob we've seen massive protests leading up to the up to this election do you think that that's going to be finished now that the voters happen or there are more protests planned. yes in just under two hours now are expecting to see one demonstration kicking off this is another opposition movement demonstration really echoing some of that sentiment we see before on the back of

the parliamentary elections ruled with allegations over let your anger on the streets as people took in mass demonstrations in moscow and around the country as a whole it's also being those in favor of the prime minister and it paid off of this key words the big we expect those supporters to be out in force tonight as well china roy who is in attendance here just behind me all right i think you could breeze live for us from moscow thanks for that update. well europe awoke this morning to headlines criticizing putin's comeback as president we go live now to london where our correspondent laura smith is standing by. for a so what are britain's leaders saying. we waited quite a long time for any kind of reaction from the leadership of britain we understand that cameron's david cameron's office were was waiting for the results of the independent observations particularly for from the o. s. c.e.

we now have a statement from the n.s.c. which i know that you looking at and downing street has now come out and said that since winning the election was a decisive result they are saying that there were some problems with the election but that the overall outcome. victory is not in doubt they say even an independent assessment putin clearly ahead in the polls so david cameron is expected to call putin later to congratulate him on his win following horse on the hills of germany's chancellor angela merkel who's already made that call but his spokesman also said that apart from congratulating him they will be discussing what their number of issues who are what about the wider reaction putin is often in the headlines there. yeah i mean we wake up this morning and literally every paper not necessarily on the front page but every. brown newspaper is covering the story of for instance victory in the election and it is largely negative coverage as it was

in the lead up to the election i mean the media in this country had already decided a that person would win and b. that the vote would be rigged as they saw it so so this is no surprise this is really just a sort of rehashing of what we saw before we take a look at three of the sort of big papers first of all the telegraph which is court headline on the front page saying claims of poll fraud taint piece in victory they also got a double page spreads here in the middle of the newspaper with a picture that they say emotional crease and she had to tear off the clarion picture and they brought out the big guns in terms of commentary there's a column here at least chris who is notoriously anti christian he writes last lot for the economist newspaper and he says that police in here they have won the election but he's he's lost the russian middle class is he very much doubts that reason will be able to win back these kind of swelling ranks of protesters that you're talking about coming out onto the streets again later on today he's won this

election battle but he's lost the war we've also got the guardian here also a headline on the front page and a comment commentary by luke harding who used to be the guardian correspondent in moscow also. he says that britain's got just six more years before he can equal eighteen years in power there's a double page spread here saying that the results isn't in doubt but that voting habits die hard to get a picture here of course the front saying. showing an old women voting in a rural kind of election that's in response to these allegations of carousel voting so crossing in supporters to vote several times the commentary here says that people in the majority were very singh not for putin but against the chaos defeated . since which would bring all of us to that's what we've got in the guardian the daily mail a similar thing a couple of page spreads in the middle of the newspaper this isn't quite as peace

and wins elections not in flight we got a nice little cartoon have a son all the talking of his son in bed and saying that's nothing certain and i think that's death taxes and he said winning an election it's about the flavor of what the newspapers are saying at the moment will be our thing will comment coming out all the time and as i say could have been expected to bring the nexus congratulating the big three listeners rarities laura smith live for us in london thanks very much for that update. and for more analysis on this wonder about alexei kodaly of editor in chief of a russian foreign news website. so thanks very much for being with us here on r.g.p. so you were an observer during sunday's vote no there was a lot made of the fact they were trying to make this vote as visible and transparent as possible do you think those efforts were worthwhile or were they in vain based upon what you saw at least some nice station where it was the more they are the more different the worthwhile because i haven't observed a single one allusion and neither do the other maurier's but it's

a joint effort and you see both the electoral commission and the observers everything they could to make sure that the voting was asleep as possible. now in that report that we were just seeing from laura smith she was talking about a foreign criticism of putin do you think some that's going to die down now that there has been this groundswell of support for him in this election well i think one mistake that the foreign observers are making is that they are focusing too much in the weeds and personally. i think it's going to be more critical articles along the lines of. the victory of putin is the death of russian democracy or as i wrote somewhere just today the final nail in the coffin. right scene actually differs very much from that viewpoint but i've seen was the actual

first steps so the same russian democracy. because you see being moderate is not just is no small task. it's incredibly effort consuming and it requires a lot of legal. training so when thousands of people. all of a sudden decide to invest fold a lot of their personal time effort and money into the. weeding all the becoming our experts in electoral law training other people who want to become monitors and elections. monitor which is an incredibly difficult task you know i spent twenty hours nonstop with the station yesterday and you have to be alert at every single moment and you have to spend a whole month comparing to do it and said to sacrifice a whole weekend. and people are prepared to do that to achieve

a goal this is democracy this is what what it means to me so. when i saw. russian democracy actually being born and great making its first steps but there are people who may criticisms of putin among the ones that they made it is he's centralization of leadership and his apparent desperation in the eyes of some to maintain power they compare him to only integration have in that regard do you think there is an apt comparison. well it's just you know it's a very formal comparison because. even if it is that he's in power for eighteen years it's a very different time and people are very different and i just saw that i saw it yesterday we have. means of communication entirely different from what i. know it can be the same thing because we are. better connected. more

determined and. well traveled so we've seen how it works elsewhere so. it's it's really it's about whether it's team or anybody else and. people are finding a way to you know be well i think it sounds bt pompous but. most of their own frankly i'm going to be fair enough and among the things that putin is done now that he has clinched this victory he's met with all of his electoral opponents except for good ideas you've got of and do you think that he intends to work with moving forward. i really don't think that it's you know you know if he got in prison very experienced and you know what that position but he's. you know he's too static for the political environment that we have you know. he does have many young

members of the communist party. who'll a lot of people of my. well goes to one hundred eighty. in more intelligence and if he finds enough political will and common sense to step down some points and can to promote younger members of the communist party you may have a future in the communist party aside how about moving forward in partnership with some of the other opponents profer arrive in particular. seem to say seeing as how kind of represents the voice of the opposition that we saw out into the streets in force meeting out of this but i voted for him but i don't think he represents me. he's at this point he's just two more for us. you can't really tell anything about him you know we will have to see how he's not a he's not even

a real political figure at this point you know his success o.c. success to the fact that people voted not for putin but against the of any other candidate i think that candidate just happened to be wrong and so in terms of this world do you think that just in terms of. the opposition against putin briefly to wrap up that do you think he will move forward mindful of very dissent that there was in the country leading up to the election he has to but not not with the with the openings that he himself assigned. to run against him. that's to sum it up. i don't think that you know. i don't consider the people he's running against to be his real prominence. they are to me just them figureheads all right well thanks so much for your insight what's a couple of for me you know some new website related. well investors now keen to know the lineup for russia's next government we'll see how they're reacting heading over to your business desk. yes matt well watch the stock markets look reassured

the preelection rushes over one however shares are seeing modest gains some investors say that they expect a period of consolidation after the markets went up more than twenty percent since the start of the year but analysts say that volatility could creep up amid a potential for unrest in the country obviously we see to the markets are fully wilfully price in the results of the of the elections in about two months time when the new cabinet is formed now here's how the figures look right now the eyes x. we see is adding point eight percent the r.t.s. is up one point four percent this this hour and here are some index movers on the my six bank is adding up to a degree to sell its shares following a five back from of minority shareholders and the same story for some energy majors both last night and gas from are also in the black and it's not only because of the results of the election but also because the price of oil is now live here on to

europe where stocks are lower the food see is losing a point now to present the dax is down over one percent this hour we're seeing a contraction in business activity there and that is fueling concern persisting that problems could have serious effect on the european economy now here's the ruble it's losing both against the greenback and the euro and investors do not want to risk concern about the european economy meanwhile the u.s. dollar is seeing some profit taking against the european currency well that's our update this hour back to you all right thank you greta. well one of putin's election pledges are already being set in motion with are you a former oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky is conviction going leader dmitri medvedev wants the prosecutor general to report back with a month how to cross he was once the country's richest man but he was arrested in two thousand and three and jailed on tax evasion and fraud charges artie's marina

kosar a the reports. it's really come as a surprise with this that the december fly me of two thousand did say that he was considering a pardon because i don't go see it but he admitted his guilt and would do that if he won the presidential elections we also know that this comes after a meeting presently thing that they did with the leaders of the just thirty and largely oppositional political parties here in russia and this was just a temporary things mostly they gave me a list of people they regard as political prisoners and for least for the post his lawyer has already said that they would have to judge the significance of this move once the investigation was completed couldn't go see it was of course russia's richest man at some point and was also the c.e.o. of get this which was the largest oil company in the country then and then he was arrested in two thousand and three and prosecutors claimed that he still will from his own company worth around twenty seven billion dollars and that he went on to

sell that approach at higher prices because political sea ended up being convicted in sioux fraud trials and is expected to be released in two thousand and sixteen his supporters have always said that the original charges were politically motivated because because they don't go see he's too fond of russian opposition parties now this review applies to this second conviction which is based on embezzlement and financial crimes and if this is this that that means that because i don't post it will be a free man once again out of house his name came up repeatedly during a presidential campaign and mccullough proper of a newcomer who clinched third place in the race promised to step in jail taken free if he won or he's losing friends now has a latest on the billionaire turned politician. so broker of it did better than some who are trying for the past two decades to gain the top job what plans and ambitions does he have in the future. of those plans and ambitions

including possibly establishing his very. the old political parties and maybe even running for president again in the future now who to call and pick and congratulates. he just took up the phone ends up putting congratulated poker up on it is impressive showing coming in at nearly eighty percent of the vote and wish you luck in his political future and there have been many interesting reactions to procure rob's political stances on different things everything from from strengthening tot russia's ties with the european union to severing ties with iran and syria many of called him the modern day gorbachev not so much in his political style because he's very he's very concerned with gradual change but he has called the modern day gorbachev because of his desire for drastic change now with this nearly eight percent of vote to me she's got a solid political base and he's going to go ahead as he says and form

a little party ads at the next presidential election possibly run for office but he is in politics to say so he says briefly what about the other candidates how did they fare and what are their current. i've been very interesting to many people is the stature of overreactions given to it to be outcomes of the of the of the other candidates now at nearly twenty percent of the bucket now do you cannot for the communist party refuses for on his part to accept these final numbers and he says these elections were not fair or they were not transparent he blames putin for not involving himself and election debates and he's actually been to reelect since so far still sixty seven years old no word yet on what his future plans are but he does refuse to accept these numbers though he said the best out of those

that did not they did not win the nets to vladimir. here no ski from the liberal democratic party has just run six percent of the bug he is characteristically the most outspoken the most colorful candidate of the group this may be his last run although he has he graduated to seeing on the victory and after him sergei mironov of the fair rochelle coming in just under four percent he's also graduated to take on a victory and quietly accepted that. he's busy friends live without a break from downtown moscow thanks very much well the biggest event in russian politics in the last four years being closely watched online as well on r.t. dot com there to help help to get across to you the latest updates and bring you in-depth analysis of the vote and its subsequent reaction also background profiles all the candidates who participated in the race for the country's top job. i'll be back soon with the headlines.