now we can see this. president here is now you. know next to. the head of the russia's federation council. that lady seems some history and she said it's so so so nice that she's there because. wasn't very smooth democratic transition from yeltsin to then that you

know got one more time to underline that it's in place so we have to be fair about a lot of your putin's political career is based upon a decision that voters he also made that's a historical fact. once again sweeping. through some raw material from greenwald taking them from the old. bit of information told us that it was with the first twenty six give us give yourself a break of an out of work arounds absolutely exquisite exquisite. course a public holiday here in russia today as well a public holiday tomorrow probably a good idea it's a public holiday because it would be it's not easy to drive around moscow particularly around red square. to expect a huge parade night. i'll be sitting here tomorrow covering the parade. it's the day after to day after tomorrow but it's nice to see moscow the sentences people have left the town the moment president new president vladimir putin is heading to

see the patriarch of russia. again this mistress to our audience here more continuity and this is something you know people some people in moscow get from frustrated with the changes in happen enough but as a country as a whole in a very turbulent world people cast a vote for stability of the person they know and again i'd like to stress as much as western media doesn't like it but i'm here putin is genuinely popular in this country when you look at the choice the russian people were given there was only one obvious one in my view was he got the percentage of the sixty four percent ok that's a landslide victory by any standard again what could happen to mr is articles like he is the ninth or tenth leader to fall since the financial crisis we see mr putin returning because of the stability and i was country i just wanted to disperse any doubts of election fraud because i was there for twenty seven hours i was part of the coming election. one of the regions in moscow and i can tell you this this was

one of the most transparent elections one has ever seen really you know this is you know sophia i mean i don't want to get overly political on this day of celebration for mr putin but you know going yesterday seeing the protesters yesterday they're the most undemocratic elements in russia today because they do not agree with the outcome of an election democracy means fifty percent plus one ok if you disagree with it then you're disagreeing with the process but you know again it's a good thing that we have the last part of it it's very important to protest leaders all over the world have to listen to what the people want even minorities ok as long as it's done peacefully without implying let's talk about. the politics aside. because crosstalk is war over. there is actor political what are they you know so i think they're dispersing and getting ready for the evening dinner now tell me about that you know i don't know

because they haven't disclosed the information to me personally but i thought you'd have a menu around what has to be because it will be some black caviar and fried scallops that much we know and i'm sure some expensive champagne as well how much. they are planning to mount and i'm in advance because it's a lot of people and you can't possibly prepare this amount of food in one or two days you know you have a lot of media representatives there of course representing the media companies here. being one of the my very own bill dogs going this way hoping to catch it an official invitation from the co-chair with him later on that you should ask him what he will wasn't really you know if you're going to hear i didn't get an invitation maybe it's not from lunch but you never know here is the way of your favorite but you've got this series. called. i think there we go as we can see the camera has just finished. you've just seen.

sworn in as russia's next president in a lavish ceremony in the credit hope you enjoyed it the last. third term of course as the country's leader kicked off they will hold the post now for the next six years a brand and taking it through the special event in the studio we've got a lot of resident political commentator moreover. across a quarter of an r.t. also sophie shevardnadze as well our interview guru a person that knows full well what goes on in the looks includes of the kremlin because watching a show with the kremlin inside here what they do with the critical rug oprah. ok all of pomp and ceremony has been good to see this delivered putin back into the credit for the third time and this time peter let's get your take on it what do you make of the events and i think you know as we've been talking about i think it's going to be a lot more of the same but i think the challenges are more difficult than we were of them with mr putin of the first eight years and mr putin

a changed man and to make the call i think yes i mean he's a very good masterful politician and i think he understands the condition of russian politics and the economy it's the economy economy economy that's what he's focused most on ok and we see civil society waking up we have a spring in russian politics which is very good so i think he's going to have to marry the two together putin two are talking about. two i think it's just a continuation of putin one i don't like the different numbers and all that because we've seen such continuity here when people voted for that's what people wanted which i think is really it makes sense it's a different person now that i think oh yeah i mean just physically look at him he's changed a lot too i think he's learned to have to learn to listen more i mean the chaos he had an idea what he wanted to do he cheated it but now we have a society maturing politically and you could have to have dialogue dialogue is could be key here ok. the better course is inside the kremlin we saw him earlier on let's catch up with a correspondent outside the kremlin. if you can hear us now we can see you good

stuff well we we watched with great pleasure the event it was spectacular to see what was about where you are. but not very much happening where i am i was watching the event with you guys along with you i should say on my i pad just before though the inauguration some protesters did make their way to just across from mine yes in a square which is where we are on this side of the kremlin the opposite side that would be where putin drove through the spots you tower there but they were pretty much just burst there remained relatively peaceful a couple of a rest were made of course nothing compared to what we saw in the streets of moscow yesterday where it was very evident really the line you have on how people view it tends to come down to not always but very commonly pretty much very black and white either you are for him or against him and yesterday we saw pro protests and also

anti protests which really did turn ugly but one thing we're hearing from a lot of people although peter the might disagree here is that one way or another if putin is going to have a successful third term in office he's going to have to make some changes. he's back for an unprecedented third term after a break as prime minister and many say russia will need to see putin two point zero a new leader who's been in power. five six seven years in a difficult position because people get used to him and the taken for granted he has to then reinvent himself putin has made the promise i had of the poll he proposed vast reforms from a major crackdown on corruption to diversifying the economy and raising living standards species for the students next term will be the one that forms his legacy as a play. titian in russian history and i'm sure it will be

a positive one. but the people to be convinced most are the opposition who gathered in the largest numbers russia has seen for decades after claims a vast front in december's duma vote and clashed with riot police on the eve of putin's inauguration. he needs to set out for reform and not a reform on paper but something real something that both the opposition and you know the regular people not just in moscow but all throughout russia can see that this is really putin two point zero the most popular politician no doubt has a majority of support across russia and is credited with extraordinary development in the country but putin leaves few people in different at home and abroad it usually comes down to love or hate but i don't think that everything that putin has done is defensible or by a by

a very wide stretch but there are some people who argue in such transparent bad faith that it's you know it's impossible not to notice that it's just it's a person it's a personality thing in the west he's seen as harsher than especially on foreign policy which could prove to be a challenge on issues like the reset with the u.s. and pushes for intervention in the middle east but on the economic front analyst have already sense to change at least three key issues talking to entry profit isolation investment climate reform we see. putin changing his. emphasis and direction on particular issues in a way which corresponds with a political shift a shift that is most evident on the web russians have never been more active in politics blocs twitter facebook or something putin will have to embrace if he wants to stay in touch yes to participate otherwise he'd be. and you would have the other

russia which talks it's a million which the president will talk his language leaving the question now that he's back can move forward. now i was at those opposition protests on sunday of course less than twenty four hours before vladimir putin was inaugurated i was the first time really it should be said that we saw any kind of that kind of violence this is been a very peaceful even really a festive movement started as one for free and fair elections and have become more of an expression of anti putin sentiment but it is kind of the word on the street that that that that movement was was upset really yesterday by just a few really couple of hundred of the thousands of people that were there that really provoked the violence you know it's a nice i thought your report was very very good but i think it's also interesting we have to always turn to our viewers is that these protests are motivating putin's base as well so this is what i mean about the political conversation here when

there are protests people that support putin come out as well so it's that's the conversation that's the dialogue i was getting at. so that's that's exactly what was going to say this so what's the biggest challenge he's got ahead of him now what's his biggest expectation. i think it depends on who you ask of course and i think peter will agree with me on that many people will say it's the opposition but then there's also people say well putin harshest critics will never be convinced of that even be considered a challenge really i think for any politician putin or anyone that is taking office now it's the challenge of finding a balance of being able to bring these people together russia is a tremendous country there's so many different opinions now and the thing that has really changed is how involved russians are in politics you know i mean so again you know looking at western media coverage of putin and the political environment here you are talking about dialogue and democracy and pretenses. something so new

and it's so awkward in the way they do that i look at a lot of the reports this morning and again i look at this and i think this is like europe ok what are people protesting people want change they want different leadership i think this is a very interesting phenomenon it's a normalization of russian politics to a great big huge degree. that's right and i think a lot of people would would agree with you and i think the people at least certainly at yesterday's protest on sunday there was a lot of people who were standing back certainly where we were where our live position was and they were just witnessing what was happening so it's an interesting thing to watch you have the people who are really active in the protests and the people who almost come to the protests to see what will happen. in just a second now the record of course. across events in that side the kremlin alexi good to see you again. there wasn't it tell us what i'm going from your eyes were the highlights for you the well we just observed this rather short and

there is solemn ceremony of president bush's inauguration it took just less than about an hour for the whole process with almost three thousand guests inside here inside the crumb of the walls that this is just one of the holes where the you know gratian process took place we saw he was then still the president elect what you would put in with making his way towards the another hall where he was sworn in officially as russia's president now i believe we can listen to his speech which was only thirty three words long three words shorter than that of the american president. while i was listening to that speech and i was you say. coming on a minute. i do believe even though it's thirty three words. in english but. if you did the duties of the president of the russian federation i swear to protect you guaranteed in rights and freedoms. on our

citizens. to surge and protect the constitution of the russian federation to protect the shoreline sea and independence. state. and its territorial integrity and to serve its people faithfully. and of the russian federation. very good. we're back with you again alexei. yes as i was saying you know i guess when i really get into the dinner table we spending this dinner to start shortly we'll probably be here for the next couple of hours simply probably be able to speak to some of the guests some the v.f.p. guess which included the former prime minister of italy. the former german chancellor schroeder and even legendary acts of former. governor of california

arnold schwarzenegger certainly we're here to bring all the latest interviews and pictures as we get it you get to rub shoulders with anyone notable yourself you know it but lots of people in fact very interesting chatter i've been hearing the crowds supporting sportspeople artists different military military elite people just talking about the different things happening in their life in the in the life of russia and certainly it's just i won't have enough time on here to to tell you everything interesting which have been which i've managed to hear but certainly rubbing shoulders with so many v.i.p.'s he has been something over the exquisite experience that's for sure you know i think this is peter did you get a sense of deja vu or did you sense that something new is happening here with this inauguration because a lot of the same people that were at this inauguration the one who passed in the one before that unfortunately i haven't had a chance to visit the previous integrations in the kremlin but it's my first time to be honest but. technically it looked at all just almost the same i mean the way putin was behaving it looked like she just knew everything which is going to happen

and it's a well of what will went also smoothly that. i had an impression that this is just another time that this is happening and a bit of a danger was here certainly i have to say lexie for a bit of television as it was there was one bit of season television professionals it's me trying to be this said of the cameras one bit just that the president had been sworn in with a camera flew around the kremlin then actually seem to manage to go in through the window and in through the door and there was polluted it was quite spectacularly good at telling what kind of work out how that happened so you can give the kremlin back to you so much as you mentioned certainly the t.v. coverage i mean the way cameras worked during the whole integration process was something amazing i mean the helicopter shots over moscow over empty cordoned off streets where the car was traveling through the summer something amazing and that shot you were talking about the one the camera literally flowing it's flying through the window this is something you of course certainly the technologies are progressing and probably during the next integration six years time we'll see

something even more crazy. as we do you know because people robots who want to talk about. good to get inside because we were deployed to things it was so much more about here in the studio and of course all the talk. and of course as it should be on the big day but let's not forget. we can call him prime minister the moment what you know we're going to have prime minister but yeah he's probably right minister designate. but it's really interesting to me to to know what you think of his legacy because some people think that he installed some great modernization and change you know others they know well you know i really can't hire he gets such a bad rap ok he started a conversation about reform and dealing with corruption and we didn't see before ok did a lot happen something like that is very very slow because very politically sensitive ok we're looking at very corrupt people you know one of the people who reasons people get very upset why don't they just arrest them all then you have

a revolution in this country you can't do the. it's a very difficult to do that you have made yes absolutely you just read the papers there are trials all the time do they get the big fish they're next ok it's not going to be very easy fighting corruption is always very very hard it's a slow and takes more than one it takes it's a generational projects the way people feel about their society it's a lot of work. you know really caring about the survival of russia depends on dealing with corruption that's the simple answer what about some of the changes that he brought into the paying attention. he's created for that is what is being a former lawyer that's not forget what was the first big decision he had to deal with south the city of the attack on south in august two thousand and eight he showed himself to be a leader of this varies around someone nearly and in the you know he had to take credit for it here but of course he had mr putin close by a seasoned politician there's absolutely nothing wrong with that either so i think that you know we look at mr medvedev as

a continuity figure when there's nothing wrong with that when you make a good progress. you know these two gentlemen know so much about how russia's own politics work and doesn't work but i think of course he will be ok he's a very very hard worker and their coffee don'ts tandem tandem what is going on over the course is did they get all will never go but did they go in the. years of the war to have them work out to the samarra which of course mr medvedev doesn't have to become prime minister if he doesn't want to he can walk away now are slowing the wave of protests also that started this winter i mean did you have outlined a series of reforms an interesting political system that is that important it's a good absolutely important the next election cycle we'll see how it works out why did it why is the rigid laws with the political parties during that nine hundred ninety s. it was chaos i remember the one nine hundred ninety nine parliamentary election absolutely chaotic the dirtiest election ever seen in my life and i've studied

politics all my adult life ok that was cleaned up you know. is the pendulum swung too far yes i think so i think it's time to come back a little bit to the center where all kinds of reforms in the electoral process really going to left you mustn't forget either the other big event or course. president medvedev as he was then saw russia through the big crash two thousand and eight and we've seen he was there mr putin was there as prime minister that's why these two men are going to be around for a while longer p.y. different should. they have a legacy you could see could really he is the one that should get the gold medal he's the one that saved the economy becoming but i hope so. ok what do you know i think he's going to stay in political life i don't know if he'll be part of the government that he doesn't like and so i don't know it's basically a mystery in his cabinet but he could work in the presidential administration as one of what i was thinking you know anything about i love to show you my christo allegations but we don't know for sure anything can happen really to make political

prognosis i understood it all i can say is that we'll see continuity with new wants i think that's going to be the catchwords and what about the reset reset you know i mean i think that the united is going to be no i think the united states and russia have enough things in common to work on they're not going to disagree on syria they're going to disagree on libya eccentrics center as long as america wants to be the great hedge i'm on russia will be against it ok well it's gives us plenty to talk about. as well peter navarro thanks ever so much sophie shevardnadze thanks ever so much but what is your next program. i think it's in about a month there's this great show because i know already it's good stuff thank you pretty much agree with what you're doing your job the coverage that live coverage here on out see of president putin as he is now his inauguration my name's kevin owen thank you ever so much for being with us the news continues five minutes from now.

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