backs of the kremlin vladimir putin to reclaim the presidency after a four year run as prime minister. david has raced through victory with over sixty three percent of the votes but there is little time to celebrate this speaks to take a look on the future steps of the president elect as well as bringing you the very latest information life from the heart of moscow in just one minute. thousands of people are expected to gather in central moscow for a thing elections rally as some of european observers praise russia's electoral progress following a last december's controversial poll join me in a few moments for all the latest on this. the opposition playing serious our

electoral violations balin to bring people back to the streets to protest against the results. six pm in moscow i mattress or bring you our special election coverage here on r t right here is putin heading back to the kremlin with nearly all the votes now when they confirm a landslide victory for the new president elect but what happens next we'll go live to money or square with our correspondent alexei or ships be standing by just outside the kremlin walls so what is putin getting set up to do now a day after his win. there is very little time to celebrate for the idea that we can celebrate his achievement his victory in the very first round of the presidential vote in russia we understand that he is indeed gratian when he will be

officially sworn in as russia's president will take place on may the seventh in two months from now until then he will continue to work as prime minister and that seems to be rather a lot of work first things we did after celebrating his victory he met with all his political rivals. initiated this meeting with all the candidates he invited all of them to have a word with him in moscow all of them almost all of them turned up except for united to grant of his main rival the man who came second place with seventeen point two percent he believes this election was illegitimate he does not want to acknowledge the result the official result of this election and thus he did not want to show up and talk with how this war there and the most interesting fact about it probably is that lots of reports said that he approves of russian tycoons idea to launch his own political party his own political news with and said that the united russia party will work in full corporation with profit of party should

he eventually decide to launch this movement now i'd like to remind you of us that the gap between what you can put in and second place devalues the government is going to amounted to almost fifty percent around forty five percent with putin gaining a little more than sixty three percent of the votes with the gun of standing at about seventeen points to and last night. addressed a crowd of more than one hundred thousand people of his supporters right here at the national square meters from where i'm standing right now expressing his gratitude to the support to the people who supported him and expressing his delight over again this overwhelming victory. we have won in an open and fear battle. but this wasn't just an 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 ruining the russian state and as are being powered we have won with the support of the absolute majority of voters it's a clear 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 just you know i promised you we would you with. me and we have the one. it's less than one percent of overall votes which is still left to be counted but we understand that this is simply a formality now russia has elected its president and of lemon but even to put it will soon be returning to the kremlin as the country's leader. like say putin now has to deliver on these promises of reform and modernization that he's made what can we already see playing out for the coming years. well indeed putin has promised

a lot during his election campaign raising pensions raising salaries for doctors and teachers improving social welfare certainly lots of promises were made and only time will tell whether bloody reports and will live up to his drama says but probably the biggest challenge which is facing right now is finding a common language with the protesters in russia certainly the last three or four months have changed the country greatly with tens of thousands of people protesting in the streets and online against directly against the prime minister and particularly for fair and transparent election whether the election turned out to be transparent we also yet still learn but the clear fact is that russia is now a very different country and earlier i spoke to a political writer from the commerce and daily newspaper said he still cried who believes that the biggest battle in fact starts only now. this will get sort of a battle between the two alternative course of all of the state irrelevant here in

developments for myself i didn't fry the first concept putting the land we can land he's a state which is north going back for old from the time of the reforms which was started by howard gordon president. of the land reforms not to be restricted to hide their crops like school while they want to become capital cities to get their way with what they want russian political system to be transparent russia's economy where they will get no never sees and no corruption and those people who support movie and the stadia their skills and welcoming who would you put in are the ones who believe in such a state and they think he can utilize them that on the other hand this other group will for us to leave here as well as russian probably who i associate with a deal just. they just need steve they need just like 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 it but sigman state which is the group of no where so this is very exciting moment. definitely time for big decisions for the president elect especially with thousands of opposition planning to hit the streets of moscow in about an hour from now that's when we will be back in this studio in central moscow with some extensive and very special coverage of these events in moscow with kevin and then he will be here to bring you the latest information yes we will use the word sarah shahi live from london to square thanks very much for that update well stay with us here on our show we've got the most comprehensive reaction and analysis of the presidential poll our election center outside the kremlin back in action from three pm g.m.t. when kevin any so we'll speak with people from a crossing the political spectrum. and about an hour crowds are expected to turn up

at one of moscow's main square is what's being called at the fair election rally tens of thousands of observers had monitor the poll with some claiming widespread vote rigging which he says must be investigated artie's peter all of our lives for us so peter what is expected at this rally where you. can see where there is. as you said just over an hour to go before things are supposed to get under way here plenty of people already. through metal detectors that are just over to my left a lot of police here around twelve thousand the authorities are telling us to make sure things go safely. keeping an eye on things. around just over an hour's time what we're going to be seeing is stage just behind me the speeches taking place. people putting forward their views about what they fool the future of russia they think starting to pick up the minutes about an hour's time we'll see the full of. people where you are will be poring over

alexion observers findings which have been released throughout the day take us through what they've been saying. well the reactions what we've been seeing them out of the mode of let me if the president elect he says in regards to allegations of electoral violations they will all be investigated and anybody who is found to have breached the electoral laws will be prosecuted to the fullest extent now when it comes to international observers we're seeing something of a mixed opinions now the council of europe soap service have said the elections that were held on sunday would by florida wait better they were an improvement on the elections that were held in december of last year the elections over the security and cooperation in europe the u.s. seat has said well although when it comes transpired boxes are a step in. right direction they are ultimately an insufficient practices they would

know we've also heard that the ballots that you the results from a polling station in pakistan will be a no this is off the webcams they were installed it counted well what seems to be what appears to be quite flagrant breaches of the electoral law. in terms of all of the observers if he said if he'd a mixed bag some of those that we've been able to speak to said that some of those international observers have said that at the polling stations they were asked everything went off without a hitch and they didn't see any infringements. i haven't upset any violation and i would say more about. fifty four upset over that but. again you know have not hopes are any violations of the electoral law of russian federation 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 and you cannot have prepare them perfect so nothing is ideal but the irregularities or in the bahamas not even here a good part is about those technical and organisational problems work seem a lot of the problems we have faced in european countries. so the reaction continues to pour in following but amir putin's election winning that vote in the presidential elections on sunday night and peter how are the other candidates responding to these latest statements. but you can imagine a theme well sydney beaton to the job of president we feet most vehement in these criticism of the electoral poll has been. the leader of the communist party the polls time he's run in the presidential race he's condemned the vote saying it was unacceptable and he would be trying to challenge not be helpful. good old he was as

opposed to eggs you count on taking part just a presidential election the only independent candidate has said he's. stuck around and they're getting full thousands irregularities did for interest in the elections and would debate whether they would take the school to terms of small degree so we're looking here at the the old rate just to the opposition of the blogosphere people seem to really be recognizing the results they've got to be a good. people will be the new presidents of russia. all right peter all of our live for us from central moscow thanks very much for that update. we're going to bring you now some live video that we're seeing from another part of central moscow where there is a pro putin rally taking place now this is going to be the second day that supporters have gathered in a large numbers this is in money square near where our alexei was giving his earlier report and now we're going to have more from our correspondent who is are among the crowd that's going to be in a few moments. but first though investors keep you know the

line up for russia's next government let's see how they're reacting by heading over to the r t business desk where corrina melican is standing by. well russian stock markets manage to look reassured as the preelection rushes over and 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 i don't say investors will be watching closely to see how mr putin handles the protests in the country obviously the markets will fully price in the results of the elections in about two months when the new cabinet is formed here the figures are nice it is gaining one over one percent of the r.t.s. it is one and a half percent of the of the markets movers on them isaacs. state backed blue chips are the main game is today we see energy majors gazprom and roll snifter are

both gaining over one have percent that's on high oil prices and what's pushing them is the results of the presidential elections as well and banking stocks are no exception in the t.v. russia second largest lender is high as well now the russian currencies losing both against the euro and the greenback investors do not want to risk concerns about the european economy and meanwhile the u.s. dollar is seeing some profit taking against the euro this hour well that's our market date this hour i'll be back with more in less than thirty minutes from now back to you all right thanks very much. europe awoke this morning europe awoke this morning to headlines criticizing putin's comeback as president we go live to our brussels correspondent presser syria who's standing by for more on this. so those are what have the e.u. leaders had to say about the election. well no official statement yet from the e.u.

leaders nor have been there are statements on the claim to victory of fulton however we did hear from the president of the parliament of heartiness scholtz and this is the latest and he said that he is concerned that the electoral process lack of fairness notably in the a limited choice of candidates as well as irregularities in the procedures however he did welcome the reawakening he calls civil activism in russia we also heard from a spokeswoman a foreign policy chief catherine ashton who pretty much said this similar thing saying the e.u. shares concerned so the international monitors over quote unquote shortcomings in the russian presidential elections and calls of moscow to address these problems and also on sunday we heard from the a foreign minister of germany gave an interview to a local paper where the headline read the vestibular praises russian election protests he says it's an interesting and positive sign that there are demonstrations of this magnitude he says he doesn't think it's a one off thing however in the end he did say that no matter the outcome of

russia's elections germany for a lot of girls will pursue a strategic partnership with russia and that overall although there have been a bit official statements if we can judge from prostate was by e.u. leaders just last week they said they are looking forward to seeing what the results will be of the russian elections in order to reassess the relationship and what the impact will be on the russian relations so there's a lot of his fair share of european headlines over two years worth of papers weighing in with their thoughts today. yeah still continuing a criticism not just of the fact that the voting here would have run again after serving already two presidential terms and one is prime minister also criticizing in general the electoral process. the florida system the call of russia this is looking at some of the headlines that we saw today like this one a french newspaper saying that it puts in return so to the kremlin however down here you have the quotes on it the report of widespread fraud the same with and

it's all in paper saying the same things putin gets sixty five percent that's the number they have here of the votes however at the opposition is growing and similarly worded headlines in german the media saying putin wins russian presidency of the good of both fraud claims you have a feature on a french magazine talking about the dirty tactics being used to discredit opposition in russia but overall though it be a european press the things that putin winning the presidency is it's a foregone conclusion whoever it still largely features the opposition of voices especially after calls for a free and fair election started in december i'll just show you how these voices feature in some of the articles this is from this standard german paper it says here putin wins despite claims of fraud and b. article they followed some a mobile brigade monitoring a very fine claims of fraud during the elections and here a spanish paper you have put in on the talk and the volley opposition activists the call is a symbol of corruption in russia so we can expect that the media here in europe

will continue with this kind of coverage looking keeping a very close eye on the opposition movement in russia as well as how the russian leadership is going to react to all of this as it develops all right sort of syria live for us with european reaction from brussels thanks very much. alexei kodaly of editor in chief of a russian foreign news website was also an observer for yesterday's vote he says he saw russian democracy being born. one mistake that the foreign observers are making is that they are focusing too much in the clinton personally. i think is going to be more critical articles along the lines of. the. death of russian democracy or as i read somewhere just today the final nail in the coffin. what i've seen actually differs very much from the viewpoint of what i've

seen was the actual first steps so to say russian democracy you know i've spent twenty hours nonstop at the station yesterday and you have to be alert at the every single moment and you have to spend a whole month preparing to do it and when people are prepared to do that to achieve a goal this is the locus of this is what what it means to me so i saw. the russian democracy actually being born and making its first steps. as we reported earlier opposition activists gathering for their fair election rally but crowds also forming in another part of moscow's central squares to support president elect fighting to use current erasures there for the low care and so just after the first results were announced last night we saw more than one hundred thousand people turned out in that spot where you are right now what's expected this evening i already hear the music striking up there. well today they are

expected to be around fifteen thousand people here on my newsnight blue shirts while you do have protests and other parts of moscow both growing and right here the people who gathered to celebrate victory you can see behind me. it's a sea have both a showcasing united russia as some of us some new flags are senior today which we did not see here on the floor of the truck a secluded space as well as the saying that he is our president so the mood here is generally a very cheerful one and the microphone that's been passed around the crowd and you have people loading bert's for last night where he did speak here on the square in that same meeting the first meeting where police reported one hundred ten thousand supporters gathered to show their support for good we're now at the moment it is a very peaceful very quiet that it did start

a little earlier than expected well it we've yet to see what's going to go on with other parts of the city where those that can type mood protesters have gathered even more right artie's characterize your reporting for us from a pro who can rally i mean there's not a square in central moscow thank you. there one of putin's election pledges already being set in motion with a review of the case of for more oil tycoon what household across he's a conviction outgoing leader dimitri medvedev saying he wants a prosecutor general to report back within a month he was once the country's richest man but arrested in two thousand and three and put behind bars on charges of tax evasion and fraud or to use marina kosar river reports. it's really come as a surprise just because somebody a person did say that he was considering a pardon because of the kosi if that he admitted his guilt and he would do that to people on the presidential elections who also know that this comes after a meeting presently think it had with the leaders of iran i just heard and largely

oppositional political parties here in russia and this is just a temporary and supposedly they gave them a list of people they're regarded as political prisoners and all these political season lawyer has already said that they would have to judge the significance of this move once the investigation was completed the full state 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 claim that he still will form his own company worth around twenty seven billion dollars and that he wants to sell it at a crawl at higher prices because political ski ended up being convicted in sioux fraud trials and is expected to release since two thousand and sixteen his supporters have always said that the original charges were politically motivated because because the bill ceased to fund the russian opposition parties now this review applies to this second conviction which is based on embezzlement and

financial crimes and if this is if that means that because of that post it will be a free man once again and how to ask his name came up repeatedly during the campaign presidential candidate mccalla proper although a newcomer to the race who clinched third place promised to set the jail tycoon a free i feel like it or he's losing friends as more and what comes next for that billionaire turned politician. those plans and ambitions include possibly establishing his very own political party and maybe even running for president again in a future now we've seen from graduated program part of his impressive showing something in it nearly eight percent vote and wish you luck in his political future but there have been many interesting reactions to procure aabs political stances on different things everything from from not strengthening ties russia's ties with the european union to severing ties with iran and syria many of calls him a modern day gorbachev not so much in his political style because he's very he's

very concerned with the gradual change but it is told to modern day gorbachev because of his desire for drastic change now with this nearly eight percent of vote to me says that a solid political base and he's going to go ahead as he says and form a political party add at the next presidential election possibly run for office but he is in politics to say so he says at nearly twenty percent of the cannot use 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 in election debates and he's actually been reelected and so far so sixty seven years old no word yet on what his future plans are but he just refused to accept these numbers so he stared the best out of

those that did not they did not win the next we have lot of here is here not speak from the liberal democratic party i just ran six percent of the vote he is characteristically because outspoken the most colorful candidate of the group this may be his last friday although he has to graduated to sit in on the victory and after him sergei their own of of the fair russia come. in just under four percent he's also graduated he can't go on a victory and quietly accepted that. let's have a look at the election results and how they translate into the mood among voters we're joined by political science professor gary hart mangled thanks very much so putin has said that he wants further economic ties with the u.s. and europe yet many figure russia's real future could be with the group brics a group of fastest growing russians brazil russia india china south africa the developing nations where do you see the future of the country lie socially politically economically and so far the russian federation has as its main cannot

conquer the european union and her a couple of the a c c c we may need to be on the most important part because it's selling its gas its our its muscles to the european union markets in last year its was forty five percent or full russian experts say you know when we have seen in the past three years the gradual but worse the kitchen before physics would markets and we have seen a gradual gov see kishen for investors with this and the european union no longer playing such a dominant role as he did with years ago now indeed as you say it is become much more relevant to the have in our thoughts years ago. so on the global financial russia's been a strong critic of u.s. foreign policy recently using them of warmongering do you think russia can assert a peaceful agenda to world conflict. i am not convinced that it has this

well i guess we have to wait for the u.s. presidential elections to begin to take place in remember. if a republican contest obama gets a make it's in relation to crush it really get better in that it's even if obama states and howard there are so many difficult. contention between the two like iran like syria south and east that i do not expect and know very significant improvements in ballots relations and that is to get people understood putin is not very much like the main us particularly not in the united states and even our most democratic party has a lot of money deputies in its ranks in each city do not really approve of mr putin so even if obama would want to improve relations bilateral relations with russia i think they'll be enormous pressure on him not to deal with a country that is and seen by many in the rest as another three tier in one trip there or has been

a vocal supporter of iran and syria two countries controversial to say the least recently especially and in terms that are specially of keeping out foreign interference with these nations or with our such strong foreign opposition to these countries and you see with president putin now russia's position changing in this regard russia is in a difficult position on the one hand it's fully understandable it's after the experience russia many of its acceptance of the libya resolution in the security council. of the united nations march last year and this is a sentence because it was literally a rest of the nations who said it would just want to protect of civilians but actually were about to do regime change in libya so on the one hand we can understand russia's position not to not go into his chair again on the other hand the russian position now completely to depends on whether they will be able to force an is there as not to enter into a dialogue if your position which discuss not only and. mr something done to your

position israel which has no interest to enter into talks with my son but as far as he can see russia it still either is not able or is he is not willing to look pressure on his back so if it is russian strategy doesn't rule out on the ground there is a real fear to try should with china who gets up isolated massacre all right after leaving paris a professor gary hart got from in support of amber in the paragraph three a thanks very much for your perspective thanks for having me. will stay with us here on our t.v. we'll be back with headlines in just a moment.