believe the election was. as open as possible anyone who. wanted to track the election had all the various opportunities to monitor the election at least me and my staff tried to provide the best conditions. and you dispose in the regions. of service got interrupted access. on our behalf we tried to stage this. as open and action a sparse will provide as friendly an atmosphere as possible so that are international. observers our colleagues could care to non biased. assessments so we didn't try to. watch the cheat anyone watched. we didn't try to pull the wool over their eyes.

and the media also provided. special. coverage so we believe we delivered on the commitments. we. again preliminary results of the election i think it's just sort of nine. you know. that you sort of ninety nine point three percent of the. being counted. the last the biggest number of votes. this is fifty six point two million more than seventy six point six six percent of the vote goes to vladimir putin. that only.

trailing him. he was eleven point eight percent. gruden. do you place my belongings to let him alone. with. four point one million she says yes she is but at five point sixty six percent. and above the national. one point. when we learned of the loss of. a sixty seven percent. distorted one. point zero four. and. forest it's

off zero point seven percent much that was it bubbled interviewing you. point six percent and so good job or in zero point sixty five percent. turnout she's. pretty soon looked at it it sure is sort of told sixty seven point forty seven percent seventy three point three million people short of that you when you poll you look at the past and you are mine you don't know us. we seem not to know you know my colleague would provide extra nation why we have. seen for so long as they turn out while you could also try.

just lays. out sort of one of seven to three. million. point three million. but it. looks as lot and it's just always seems that not one hundred eighty one thousand. people who were staying outside of russia or people in remote areas now again this is preliminary preliminary outcome. we have ten days yet to do the final counting and. the final results. of the two thousand and eighteen election and now we need to. see how much is. from all the polling stations and also to. polling stations to actually

election commission. are located outside of russia so why does it take so much time there are a host of different factors we believe that we had an unprecedented information campaign. so. davidson and thought it was so out to all russians that. we provided. information for everyone to make their decision yep a longer version of the. national than an important contribution was made things to the. mobile vote. a new concept between traduced. there are a lot of people who haven't voted in many years and we've provided them with this

opportunity we've added an extra layer of mobility. so forty five days before the election you could have filed. an application. and again we're all so used to some of the other ego and service. fees the voting for this category of people. still early to make a final assessment does give you the final estimate and you definitely give you the dates wrong immobile a vote. system later on but we can safely say that it's. just you. got us there will be. did you know as many more votes. use the

immobile voter. unity then those who use the absentee ballots in the two thousand and twelve election so it means that people could have selected the area where they want to. be exact polling station. just limited to their place of residence official place of residence we definitely got a lot of reports from where. we were refile in this process so we will do our homework. overall i believe that the new system the new mechanism has proven its efficiency. that it also together with the government says we've. improved accessibility

for people with disabilities we. president. work we focused. on. twelve million russians who have disabilities we've removed a lot of barriers. did not allow them to vote earlier. with. people in detention or of people under helmar arrest. people. hospitals. all covered we've provided them with. ballot boxes we had some polling stations in airports. train stations again that provided for. high level mobility accessibility and

that's helped to improve it turned out. so that you know our people always unite in tough times. again we had some political events you know like to think some of the leaders of some western countries. uselessly. to positively contribute to says used to. consolidate seeing our nation. apologies for interrupting their one hour to international i rule research show that was the head of russia's central election commission full of giving us the latest updates with the latest numbers vladimir putin getting the majority of the votes in this presidential election now we understand as she was saying there were seven to eight observers for every single polling station and we also understand there were one thousand five hundred foreign observers for this election that

actually doubling the number of foreign observers for the last one and. philippa was saying observers were provided with uninterrupted access so they could get in on biased assessment and more details on this online right now would he dot com in the meantime though a political analyst told us what we might actually expect from the next six years of putin's presidency he has a powerful mandate but it's not entirely clear what to be trying to do we had the state of the nation speech on the first two thirds on domestic social policy economic policy many of the concerns. that it is not. an agenda so he talked very. recently the western economies with. clearly a modernization agenda that's quite important we've already announced decreases in the military budget and i think he wants to emphasize more education health care

and infrastructure development those are areas that need to be addressed special out in the regions but i firmly believe it's going to be one of his agenda items as well he wants to bridge the gap i think bridge the gap expression with the e.u. and promote continued growth. improvement in relations and also with china as well looking forward to it think the rather surprising next six years where a lot of voters. will be coming together economically diplomatically russia will be seen as being defined as a professional player on the group with the united states. something about the reruns so barbara. this was the first presidential election for the only woman in the race for the kremlin. and the reality show star time politician was running as part of the liberal opposition platform and presented herself as a candidate against old and although she got a little more than one point five percent of the vote she hasn't lost hot. campaign

headquarters when the results begun to roll in. liberal opposition candidate thirty six year old showed up at her own h.q. just minutes after the last polling station in russia closed but really there was nothing to celebrate back then it was already clear that she was going to come forth but with less than two percent well regardless of that. as we've heard many times today likes to portray herself as the new prominent opposition figure in this country and perhaps that explains the heat in the debate she had a little earlier with alexei vali who is one of the most fiercest critics of a lot of our putin and russia but as we remember he hadn't been allowed to take part in this election under a law that bans people who were charged criminally from running for president

people. deal with the slight by look on the by leave just imo yes they did concede that but he said that they mean me spar with zealots they knew was this. does not win you might. store you could see you. hear me over the hear questions from left when you opposable among. the floor not the room. as a small even later one you would assume that if you ask any politician any presidential candidate around the world if he or she would be happy with that kind of disappointing result you'd expect the and certainly no in the vast majority of cases but as i say in your sub jack told me in an exclusive live interview she doesn't see it that way course it's not the result i would dream about but my campaign was not

a result my campaign was about talking truth on the propagandistic channels of federal t.v. in russia this result is higher than of any other liberal candidate and that makes the platform for readmission if we take your result the result of the gore you believe and mr t. tough as well and add them together still i think that's just under five percent so is there much room for improvement here and are you hoping to improve in the near future education is the most important value of my program education of russian people of telling them truth about the situation they are leaving trying to make them interest on the collection between their level of life and corruption that is there in the contrie the only real way to make this five percent growing to fifty one percent is to make people understand this connections after the debates with

alex you know what i mean are you confident in that kind of future for a so called united opposition bloc i'm very disappointed by the discussion because i came there to discuss all future six years with putin and how we will fight with me but in stand we were discussing the. in my instant which is ridiculous to my way what is your maybe. a few adjectives that you can use some other words to describe this it's the success of freedom of speech and this is our most important success during this campaign to vote itself i mean we should be realistic about this huge amount of support to. this result well maybe it would be seventy five percent sixty eight whatever the steel we should meet the majority people really want peace pres. so almost all of the ballots have been counted in russia's presidential election. as winning by a large margin it means the sixty five year old will take the country's top job for

another six years this will be his fourth presidential. and has won over seventy six percent off the folks with more than fifty six million people costing the ballots for him. leaving all rivals far behind at this point the turnout is estimated at sixty seven percent now the head of the central election commission has just announced key figures from the vote there were four hundred seventy four thousand. one hundred five commission representatives and ten thousand journalists covering the event of a fifty one hundred. forward and coming from one hundred fifteen different countries. old serious numbers as many light hearted moments of the big day let's have a look in just a moment here on the international factor a lot of special pieces produced and otherwise online right now would be called in for the meantime though we are back in just.

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this is all true for most go election headlines this hour which reelection to a fourth in office with almost all of the ballots from sunday's presidential election process. the international response to putin's re-election. by world leaders including china is paying off all the way to criticism and insults of some microsoft have done so the election from traditional culture through to voters dressed as angels and even though smelling came out to enjoy them so.

that's. still on this beautiful day and you're watching all to international law special coverage of russia's presidential election would mean to do it today and right monday morning don't come much but i've been there for you. know we're going to be bringing you live updates and reaction throughout the day long from all spoken studio here almost. with almost one hundred percent of the ballots not counted in russia's presidential elections lot to me if he is winning by a large margin it means that sixty five year old will take the country's top job play another six years this will be his full presidential term if you've been watching in the polls half an hour or so you have seen the head of the central election commission has just announced the key figures from this vote missed approach in the end that with over seventy six percent of the vote that means more than fifty six million people voted for him leaving all the other royals fall behind the turnout estimated at sixty seven percent more than was expected this

time yesterday. four hundred seventy thousand election observers one hundred five thousand. commission representatives and ten thousand journalists covering the event of a fifteen hundred of the foreign coming from one hundred fifteen different countries a lot of figures that but the election wasn't all serious numbers as many lighthearted moments kind of the big day that's on the plate.

if you caught any of our coverage of the results and it would have been like my for some people so i mean that's part of the world but throughout our coverage we have correspondents of the candidates headquarters doctors across the russian capital. was following for the campaign we talked with earlier about how it went. but it was a very busy bee the first appeared to house's tradition to pass this. for the

cameras up and then he disappeared for a while to do whatever it is that presidents do but. resurface some hours later when. first exit polls came out and when it became apparent that he was well ahead of the competition just a few hundred meters from here. square the concert would have a concert dedicated to the reunification of. russia. you know the opportunity to. people who to his supporters and russians. and obviously. what stood out. was in the other direction again a few hundred meters but it was cheery there wasn't a lot of apprehension you know. that they were the favorites in all of this we waited for intervention he. talked to everyone supporters again all the

people that made his campaign happen his campaign chief supporters everyone else. talked to us the journalists. some tough questions right off the bat about. tempted this as a nation of. russian agent. britain and he was his response. the first thing that comes to mind is that if it was a military people would of course have died on the spot. substances we destroyed all our chemical weapons by international inspectors i think anyone with common sense understands that it is russia to do such things. as you know people couldn't believe they expected the numbers to go down as. that but as they went up and up very happy the champagne came out and you know there's a lot of capping shoulders and. they said the champagne was coming out

of the professional district in the. you did. obviously as he said i was asked many many questions and this is going to be his fourth term when he asked about plans i had had of that beyond. but there was a whole lot of questions about you know all sorts of aspects of what he was going to do in the future but one of them was whether he would attempt to change the constitution to perhaps run again you could keep the momentum not planning any constitutional changes with the states because i was more than this do you think you will be in the presidential cedes until twenty thirty or course if you change the constitution because. i think what you're saying is. you know until i turn one hundred. the election comes amid increased tensions and will seen throughout the international media with the west

in particular and the official reaction to it and think it has been muted so far but the media have already made that point clear correspondent joins us with reaction from an area peter have you heard anything of the e.u. heavyweights have anything to say on the outcome yet. very quiet so far in terms of official reaction when it comes to where i'm talking to you from here in berlin we get to hear anything from angola merkel or from one of her spokespeople we have heard from the opposition party alternative for germany they congratulated not another term as russian president saying that they wanted to work with russia to get rid of sanctions imposed on moscow that as they see it actually harm german interests in business when it comes to the relationship between germany and russia or it strained at the moment over those international tensions that have arisen following the attempted murder of of mr scrooge powell and his daughter in london

however the personal relationship between vladimir putin under. it's quite strong they are of course two of the longest serving world leaders on the stage at the moment what we found out last week was that every now and again the chancellor sends a few bottles of blood a mere pittance favorite german beer over to the kremlin to him and she receives a type of russian smoked fish that cheats repair has taken a liking to and when it comes to press reactions though here in germany well it's pretty much as you would expect we actually saw the main tabloid billed newspaper come out on sunday before a vote it being cast even congratulating vladimir putin on a victory that was more of a barbed congress than anything anything genuine the case though is dominating all of the talk about the russian elections here in germany and also elsewhere as

well we've fact heard some newspapers saying that the the investigation and all of the the. outpouring that's come from that have actually helped that it may have putin that was confirmed in fact on our show during the election broadcast by one of the spokespeople for vladimir putin's their campaign thing in fact all of the media attention outside of russia spurred people on to actually get out and vote but when it comes to the united kingdom and the reaction there what we've seen newspapers putting out their articles about there being no opposition in russia against vladimir putin also that vote tampering had taken place and we've seen cartoons one in particular in the guardian depicting russian president mr putin as a spider sitting atop the world it's very similar in fact to a nazi propaganda post that was published way back in the in the thirty's that talked about the dangers of global bolshevism and if they've compared the two

they're really it's a negative where you would expect it to be negative the coverage of putin's reelection we're still waiting for a reaction from the. big here in europe no word from the elites say piracy in france as i say no word from the chancellor here in germany either but we're keeping an eye on that and assume is anything does come out of course i'll bring it to you right here. thanks very much for the view on what's happening over a new. state of course very early for the. clock in central and western europe so soon as they do start talking about it you'll hear about it right here across the atlantic oh some american politicians a bit far more outspoken about the reelection his longtime critic republican senator john mccain accusing him of trying to artificially inflate the turnout top democratic congressman adam schiff so i'm included for eliminating his opponents there's also been reaction from an s a whistleblower edward snowden he's living in exile in russia peter.