either as with the number is higher than weeks you had expected. much higher and this is thanks but the most of it largely thanks to the u.k. actually because they didn't have to count on how the russians would react to what's happening on this particular aspect ratio really because there was a time when russia is accused of something without substance to this baseless accusations this makes the russian people more unified and brings us together so i would like to thank you and the u.k. for helping us with this high turnout. well they will certainly be happy to hear that at least my last question to you as a as a journalist i can see this stress this strain that you have been facing how do you feel right now because what if what if. well what i can say for certain that there is no time to rest of mr putin is not going to rest tomorrow is going to continue

working starting from tomorrow. the moment she of realizes the team you can receive the man who died while she was start implementing all of the decision has been talking about chief of blood to me or putin's campaign so glad to be a putin obviously were neves going by the exit polls data in this league and they'll be killing down perhaps a few percentage points but the so far this certainly looks like a vladimir putin victory. we want to make our country brilliant moving forward into the future because our ancestors really actually. our kids are living here and our children and grandchildren will do everything for them we'd be happy.

and i see you sleeping so we have our own principles we do not let anyone interfere in our internal affairs and don't interfere ourselves that's our principle at the national should treat your partners with respect and then you will be respected it's a clam. when you can get they don't have a program of development for our country what i appreciate about them is they talk about the problems as indeed a good thing and that should be done but there's not enough for the positive developments of the country to concentrate only on problems can even be dangerous because that might lead to destruction we need construction at the invest at each. but i see it wasn't the russia not only has to secure a place in the top five biggest economies in the world but also to boost g.d.p. per capita one and a half times by the middle of the next decade that's a hard task but i'm sure we can do it. can you just work as hard as i can.

just give me a chance to serve one. place we can deadline i have been looking right now according to the preliminary results and we're guessing that we played it in the range that doesn't mean we thought seventy one point nine percent next we have have a thirty nine from the communist party on point nine percent and that's not good measure and also gave the liberal democratic party six point nine things that say about everything counted not twenty one percent just a little days don't forget those polls have been close to the polling booths for about forty minutes or so. really shrink or is it one of the interesting spots of the station to. send to the russian girl to opposition candidate looking to show you things up a bit she was towards actually at the bottom of the opinion polls for

votes but it may go in a favor later on what's the saw in the count where you all the noise issue celebrating. seven zero again well as you were saying the numbers aren't that good for saying it's a shock that it's not rock bottom that is not the worst result because we have a number of candidates that so far are doing even worse as i was saying in fact. that is giving a press conference right behind my shoulder right now i can tell you that she promised to show up at this h.q. three hours ago but she was three hours late and when just ten minutes ago she was entering the room i approached her and i asked her about the first numbers that we're getting just to remind you after the counting of about twenty percent of the

ballots. mostly coming from the far east sending its official results is one point thirty. thirty nine percent but i can tell you that right now we can listen to that press conference listen to the things samuel subtract is saying so i'll come back to the world right after that because that's at least that's what you have to look at it's you know we but a consequence of my dealing with deal of the same supply but i think another single now but a spicy visit when you might not look someone putting you might seize a union the top some of the pain you might still. seem. to put which you can't accomplish but you know what that tough month the president's oh he's missed the plot get on the pm we don't sleep. so yes i was just beginning to tell you how i don't like it how i approach to the change. just before she was entering the room and asked her about the first numbers that she got according to the official the women are a data capture twenty percent of the ballots were counted we know that her official

was all there is one point thirty nine percent and one of the exit polls was giving her point five percent for the first game ten twenty seconds sandy had just lost by staying silent but then she said oh i'm not going to talk about this because this is too early and then we heard a lot of applause but definitely the mood is and she's been here and these are the numbers that i guess saying a soft i won't be happy was say we're expecting some more maybe not a massively better result but this is why we're looking at right now i can tell you that shortly before the actual vote we had an exclusive interview with a new sub shock and just for you to get an idea of what she stands for let's have a look. i want to show people russia that there is another point. this is the goal of my

complaint i know you can't win on the elections where only putin always wins within himself on many occasions that russia needs more competition both political parties to never gives it ok well i agree i know all the facts yourselves that's all i got here for eight years i'm just a little blonde girl you know coming from what we can find and how to balance with me. because i've never said that a president should be you know one field expert. and the only way for us is along the way i know that many people want a fast change but change only happens as a revolution i am against. i want to educate people i want to bring them truth and i want together all their problems to make them federal it's the same old russian pretend isn't waiting for the officials

to fix the problem don't you think that you are essentially playing the very same kremlin tactic no i'm not i'm the change people want to see. this interview how few weeks ago but as i was telling you right now is giving a press conference right behind my shoulder and i believe we have the translation so let's listen in. to the sponsors. of. their participation in my complaint about their readiness to finance me as a completely transparent politician i have just once that i have declared the name so. this is the democrats and said again i don't know if there is so. much great people thought of me. later they were joined by a number of other people whom i also have named but i would also like to know that i was the only candidate that. if you can do that declared and have named my

sponsors mr nardelli has not to disclose his sponsors i am the only candidate who did that i was the only one who actually named enlisted these people putting money into my last campaign so discussion you heard what was completely truth was that your business question about how i am financed my campaign yes i had sponsors and i have disclosed them so i've. given you doesn't mean that i am engaging in politics for the sake of money this is completely untrue i am ready to answer any of your any other questions. yes i'm no good asked if i have answered this questions on many occasions would each lie be a complaint well you shouldn't judge a person based on looks he does he's got thirty days and his deeds because i have

done but i lot of things that are very important to do i have his to the tiger courts of the russian federation to the supreme court watch the shock at the rope as about the purchase a patient of mr putin this is something. none of the other candidates has done he has done a lot of the can he doesn't thing us i gained access to the federal t.v. channels but i have been speaking truth to no need for several none cause i have been talking about so corrupt politicians would sometimes think about what we actually solicitations about statesmen stealing money floors no particular i have criticized mr putin but this is what you can hardly argue that i haven't done that you can i did just so watch. my flow of any channel and that i. mean your gonzales i've discussed so this issue on voice i have always said use these opportunities to criticize mr bush and yeah but the only i had he had worked with the also as a show of force was only the me position groups and more closely moxy mightily

spoiled civil and maybe we could have talked about some other things maybe could have talked about more things but i have used my rights to speak to my thought as well as best as i could get away that's been the policy winds out of iowa as far as i understand saying the sob chad was the first presidential candidate to give a live press conference after a polling station closed across russia just to remind you the preliminary results for her the unofficial one from the exit poll is too high and a half percent but the official results with a bit more than twenty percent of the ballots counted that's even lower than that just one point thirty nine percent and this again these are the numbers that people were expecting here. so the mood isn't jubilant and it seems that serious of chuck is right now it's blaming the things that she has done during the actual campaign

and explaining why she couldn't get the right numbers but she's still saying that russia's opposition benefited from her work from her campaign for now that said let's see what else she can say after this is the next one. thank you for the day we will be going back to really at the other night as those votes are counted but the now let's get some expert analysis from our guests here marianne e.f.l. matt french and national s.m.b. deputy who acted as an election observer during this presidential vote. was your impression of the electoral process in russia but i was in a group of about thirty members of parliament or former members of parliament from france we were here because we were invited by the duma and others clearly we have some team in most. of them and. the return is everything was normal everything was normal we discuss about the

process into putting station and every single little bit like in france for example even maybe more because for example i saw in many place some to control we don't have that in france and. if you if you can accept. some private contrition and i never saw so many. young shit run for the family who are voting no it was honestly a clear in and vote in my opinion is to learn only through the course leaving you alone with all over the distinguished guests we've got lined up here because we did begin to to bring various press conferences certainly in the next hour or so just to. giving a reaction to what was in the all three impressive results from the two point five percent. the vote in the very very early thoughtful she's got i think i'm told we're going to go over the powerball group dean in from the communist party i'm not

sure if he's giving a press conference so maybe somebody can tell me i gather that was on the cards is a very available to go to guys all should continue our chat. no one so we'll continue our chat ok. wanted to ask you how france sees the vote come in from crimea because as far as france is concerned it's a controversial thing. and preserve micron so that france would recognize the vote from crimea tonight do you think about that. most importantly if the if the people of green recognize i was in many times after the return of creaming or russia and i think i was for example in sebastopol for four months ago for the election of good. and well i'm sorry for my country don't recognize the process included but there is a fact and there was a referendum and it was difficult to don't recognize the referendum or when to

people who wants to return. it will deal excuse me the eighteenth thinking of another candidate was projected to win basically someone other than putin and characters be what it seemed any different man. i think so but you know everybody knows that the result will be the president putin will be reelected again and you saw what's happened in the next the past few days we just probably need to learn we are a little bit surprised by the reaction of france there is no proof and. i think. that president putin would be reelected nights nearly sure it's time to start a new period with russia. ok well so we could leave it there we will be coming by to a little bit later so we're hoping to go over to that. coming this party briefing for . what comes to the moment for them i would say they don't really. like you so much

you know they are looking like they were coming and we appreciate that ok so all of the presidential kind of this will cost their ballots today here are some of the highlights from the voting this check that out so far as it stands is obviously very fluid fos moving as we speak. our language. her. pirlo so. thank you thank you for. now have a great dane and i can do that all the russian communist party was also the boss

that up almost all good fun is to take second place in that race and can i get more about him from on caleb maupin news at that age you have a great and it's a new day it's a big part i think this is the first time he's running for president and it looks like he will be but it closed his rivals what's the mood like bag. while we're here at the headquarters of the russian communist party and as you can see there's a lot of people here anticipating words from the candidate the official preliminary results show him coming in a strong second place with over fifteen percent now let's remember in the lead up to the election he did make a promise that if he didn't get a full fifteen percent of the vote he would actually shave his mustache this is a promise that drew dean in made so everyone is anticipating. a full counting of the votes now a little background information. he is the director of the lennon farm cooperatives

they are here in russia and they are farm cooperatives they produce strawberries and they provide a rather high wage as well as good services health care education to those who work in their cooperatives now in the lead up to the election we were able to here at r.t. to actually speak with great tune in and ask him about some of his policies this is what he had to say to us in the lead up to the election about his perspective on things this is the candidate at this point coming in a strong second. terrorism it is in places where people live in poverty and an environment for terror groups to develop first and foremost we must get rid of such environments so people must be employed if a man has a job with a decent wage and cares for his family he won't become a terrorist if he has no job and has fallen for a certain dog trains imposed on him he becomes easy prey for terror recruitment i'm talking about the domestic situation as for terror groups existing outside of the

country that we must fight them very hard the good guy should be strong and pull no punches. i think the european union says russia is a threat over in order to consider doing to its internal policies and i'm getting the impression that the e.u. authorities present russia as the enemy to consolidate themselves because doing so they're lobbying for defense spending why would you unleash an arms race if you already have a lot more weapons than we have from hand your military budget is bigger than ours i believe someone wants to escalate an arms race even more so and for that reason they must be shown that there is some sort of phrase in existence. where we can put this issue to a referendum but i can tell you ninety nine percent of russia's population would be

against same sex marriage it certainly comes from so why raise the issue it's like asking muslims whether they're legal they won't although in many other states people eat pork and there's nothing wrong with it but muslims would be doing it all in russia people have certain moral norms and we must consider this fact so as of today we don't have any grounds even to propose the issue of same sex marriage to our nation. just going to see this sunday evening here in moscow let me take you through the candidates lined up and i was looking for them these really days those votes. finally stopped being posted half an hour ago another big house begins of course was the first initial ideas of what i've been coming through first three places in the race changed a bit just a percentage point so just by from just on the last sort of what twenty minutes ago that he would put you know some two point five percent in from the communist party

fifteen point five percent in second place was estimated he would be. the veterans of these elections for the liberal democratic party six point eight percent balance because it's so far out she's going to support a bit of the ballots counted so far twenty five percent of course these days everything below the last decade or so is quite quickly which may account for the fall of course back in twenty twelve they're able to get the final results within a couple of hours so it may not drag on too long to my mind one hundred forty five countries all around the globe russians were able to find it seemed like a lengthy and policy lead but one month he's not done patiently waiting to have that day in this election year not just on terra firma either some of the votes have come from the whole world one russian cosmonaut all but didn't want to miss his vote so he helped to select a person back on earth to cast a ballot it works perfectly safe to say one hundred percent turnout on the international space station. a few unexpected voters aside from all cosmonaut to

his are about to show you. this is. so early days but twenty five percent of the votes counted so far got a lot of great guests lined up over the coming hours we're going to be in for at least next four five maybe six hours here bring you the latest let's cross. direct

to the roosevelt center for us studies at moscow state university. many mainstream media headlines and jumping to conclusions when. it does look like it's going to be like that way by a fair margin if he does get more than seventy percent i think certainly the poaching camp would be very happy with that at the moment it looks like they've got a golden seventy percent to think he's going to keep that if you think there's more votes coming it might do it difficult to know it and we'll have to wait for the exact figures but i think you will get to the seventy four percent. that was a great job. been like for election day in russia. or excuse me what he's. sorry the coverage and all the coverage yes the coverage was i have looked through the papers today. almost all the.

new primus told our viewers it was going to be a fluid thing please don't go away as promised we can go to this party. having his say let's go live. in a moment ok next time we're going to have five times as many. bees. because the pro. twenty steps to the happy life has been well received. well whatever the results we see. the actual results you always see in your homeland and. most are good in. town that he's helped build the old. you always years. and he has created some of the best enterprises and schools and technologies in

this town. there were people trying to be smirched him but i can say that. at the polling stations. where he voted. one thousand five hundred fifty three people voted but the authorities brought six hundred more people to this polling station to show that. he's unknown tongue keys not as supported as his actually are now. with the result the results show that. mr goulden has fifty five percent in his hometown mr putin has thirty five percent and this is a decisive for result. of this electoral campaign i'm going to thank you all of you all of the participants and members of the campaign we have

a whole legion. people actually engaged in telling right talent calculating the votes and they are showing higher votes than those by the central actual come eighteen now we are going to implement our right for a better level calculation. i would like to think the voters. and especially mr gruden. who has traversed the entire country over these months now he had a whole. auditorium so many people hundreds of people people coming to see him he asked and answered all of the questions of all of the journalists he. was ready to come to any t.v. channel to comment on anything and he was. fighting against his opponents who were engaging in the very.

last practices bad faith practices and if you look at the results. all of the other parties received much fewer votes than mr gruden and this is a testament to our success to the success of garlic party and so no matter how much they're trying to be smirch. the communist party. or you know they are not successful they have not they have no option but to get out of this systemic crisis then look to work with us and talk knowledge of the society the russian society wants to change and what renewal it wants course which would lead to construction and new things and innovation not stealing and corruption and this is how this has been

a slow going to actual campaign now. our country. before they put it past years have been. unable to discuss the actual problems we. propose to the authorities and to come to our towns to look at our local youth and. prizes to look at our results and successes to look and see why mr good seen him has. succeeded how he thought his money and surprises and how they achieved outstanding results with great specialists high salaries and so on and so forth unfortunately the authorities when went against that they tried to be smirched to. go to try to attack.

we attempted to creates the with. the. good luck of. civility leftist forces. and all of them agreed. i cannot is again after the head of the conservative party but fronting it does mention the pavel gruden and the ticket if you like these elections he's a from face for what we we had the chair of the conservative party talking there giving his views of the republic part of the box he was going to go on for a fairly long time but not to our guests yet back to you again i thank you so much hanging on for seven sorry had to interrupt our chat we were talking before about the coverage of the russian election a foreign media and you were staying at. maybe saying how certain hypos i may have been safe but that is foreign media while i would say that everybody

at least at some of the issues i looked through today and some of the newspapers all the authors had been sure that we did well we saw the major question was what is next because this is his last term and everybody had been interested in what issues he will raise during his last term whether he will go for the serious work for. what i think it will be more active with the foreign policy and things like that so almost over. for the media concerned about the future rather than that brawl especially now the moment of course we're going is going on with our spot between britain and russia. it remains to be seen what what happens without a cause russia is saying nothing to do with us at the moment to talk to us about this kind of thing. under a new term i'm just just looking at some of the headlines coming to see the independent newspaper in britain no say.