and wished it also in truman the you would have the option to you sure lect or president by direct elections or coop consists of eight different members of. parliament i want to comfort you laid mr putin into i hope that we can improve to shroom of russian relations have to do selection. it would be really important for us because also the chairman's suffer because of sanctions all the pressure was positive for the most. so i think overall it often my goodness. we were. both in every polling station so what i can say i hope somebody from this was all that if this was the general mood among the other election observers here in moscow some of the seats are against such a wall fall and all of. the average off. on or

off of it. this was also the first presidential election we must run before the only woman in the race said you subject to start us off as the candidate against all the others i vote as a vote against everyone else but it didn't capture the public's imagination to see the reality show star politician came fulsomely and the only one point seven percent of the vote but would think that she get to say it was not terribly good subject shared her reaction to the result without easily put trying to. thirty six year old liberal opposition candidate who devoted most of her time during the campaign to wiping out corruption in this country and also helping those she called political prisoners in russia she will be given credit for spending a decent amount of time at the headquarters speaking to journalists her supporters to time she showed up there and the first time was only just a few minute. after the last polling station closed in russia and then you could

see it on her face she was unhappy with the result there was nothing really to celebrate were guard lists of that though she kept portraying herself as the new prominent opposition candidate and that explains perhaps the heat in the debate she had with alexei vali who's one of the fiercest critics of lot of more potent. musings. when you months. in questions. let's go back to the results that is just under one point seven percent perhaps if

you ask any politician or around the world who's running for president whether he or she would be satisfied with these kind of numbers perhaps the answer you would hear would be no but in hard case when i had an exclusive interview that was later than one am moscow time yet she stayed there that late sending a sob chag told me that she could still find positive things in that result of course it's not the result i would dream of but my campaign was not a volatile south my companion was involved talking truth on the propagandistic channels a federal t.v. in russia ek sion is the most important value of my program educational for russian people telling them truth of balak the situation believing trying to make them into stand the collection between their level of life and corruption that eases their in the contrary after the debates with alexey no one but you could. and that kind of

future for a so-called united opposition blog i'm very disappointed by the discussing because i came there to discuss all future six years with putin and how we will fight with me but instead and we were discussing having my instant problem which is ridiculous to my way what is your maybe objectively or a few adjectives that you can use or some other words to describe this it's a success of freedom of speech and this is our most important success during this campaign was the vote itself i mean we should be realistic about this huge amount of support of putting this result well maybe it would be you know the seventy five percent but sixty eight whatever the steel we should it makes that the majority of people now really want this president. so this country russia the biggest country on earth how do you say in the twenty eighty presidential vote we're going to leave you with a look at to red square for now resplendent to my list spinlock cameron should we

take a look at the beautifully lit ramparts of the kremlin because rudd says the premier league had to go the same puzzles procedural as we've come to the result take it is time for give more coverage here and also internationally is can we go into making sure that i was thanks for watching. what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line they did accept it or reject. so when you want to express. something i want to press. it to the right to be approached this is what the full story of the people. i'm interested always at the lawyers at the. press should.

american men while. the second is the radiologist. they like it to see that america works hard so this is a whole group of people all generation in america that there is no melting pot we're not being assimilated there's no opportunities we can't live so their response essentially is to go into conflict and this is a major. welcome back russia has expelled twenty three british diplomats in

a tit for tat move this follows the recent poisoning of former russian spies and his daughter in the english city of salzburg artie's igor's done after joint neil harvey in the studio with the details it's beginning to feel like a verbal tug of war so to speak so what happened today was the you issued a joint in the very careful statement on the whole case of the poisoning of the script poisoning they did not pin the blame on russia but the expressed grave alertness the grave worry about the whole thing you've said that the are treating the incident very very seriously and they've said that the use i quote of chemical weapons by anyone under any circumstances is completely unacceptable and they've demanded some more information from russia effectively because everybody's a lot of countries are pinning the blame on russia for it and the russian foreign ministry had no other option but to reiterate the statement that they've made

a number of times already they've said the e.u. is fueling the whole media hysteria that's what they've called it. around the poisoning and they've said that russia has nothing more to demonstrate other than from what it already has demonstrated they've said that they have nothing to do with the poisoning that the nerve agent used in the apparent assassination attempt is not being produced in russia neither is stored the whole chemical stockpile of russia and u.s.s.r. has been destroyed but this is not the you know the repeated statements by the russian foreign ministry have not stopped the barrage of demands that russia explains itself coming from the western countries i mean the french president manuel mckown even included one into his congratulatory message to vladimir putin nato also weighed in on this have a listen we continue to call on russia to provide complete disclosure of the

program britain is to actually this is with our obligations under the treaty on chemical weapons and i would contrast that with the russians. i think what a lot of people find very first thing about this story is that the burden of proof is kind of been thrown over to the russian side the message from the u.k. and its allies have been prove you didn't do it. but what you haven't seen is much evidence if any well it's doesn't sound like there's a it's a matter of evidence so to speak because the u.k. was the first on this bandwagon of russia bashing and they've been saying that it is highly likely that it is overwhelmingly likely that more school is behind this they are saying that moscow is the only this is the only side that could benefit from poisoning this person they've been saying that there's no other possible explanation boris johnson the u.k.'s foreign minister has said that he feels he

senses certain russian ness around the whole incident what sort of argument is that. what is their russianness really and so the foreign ministry tonight have really just stressed the point that yesterday was again reiterated by lattimer putin in his election speech have a listen surely it is you i think anyone with common sense understands that it is nonsense for russia to do such things before the presidential elections and the football world cup and so russia has been expressing its eagerness to cooperate with the investigation they've repeated a number of times they've officially asked the filed an official request for samples of the nerve agent used to poison scruple to be provided to russia for analysis to find out what it's where it's coming from where it could be coming from who may have produced this sample none of the official requests of russia have been fulfilled instead there's been

a barrage of accusations and of demands of russia explains itself. well the u.k.'s government admits it could take months to investigate the case but this hasn't stopped london from openly accusing moscow of being behind the attack on monday prime minister to resign may have said russia have the motive and the intention to poison such. auntie's an associate churkin a reports we've heard from the metropolitan police describe the ongoing investigation as quote extremely challenging and complex has not been stopping u.k. officials including u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson and i think people can see this is a classic russian strategy of trying to conceal the needle of truth in a haystack. more use out of the stage poisoning of surrogates creep is not an isolated case but the latest in a pattern of reckless behavior by the russian state while russia's guilt is really

being pushed to the forefront and russia has to stay behind trying to somehow prove its innocence according to the approach the u.k. has taken we've seen that this is not the same story when it applies to different situations involving russia for once over the weekend boris johnson was asked about a hefty sum of money one hundred sixty thousand pounds that were donated to the conservative party by a russian woman and a wife of a former russian minister who worked with large amir putin for a tennis match with boris johnson and there apparently he seemed that was all right listen into evidence is produced against individual russians i do not think that the entire nation should be should be corrupt well today boris johnson is in brussels meeting with the foreign ministers of the european union he's been speaking in addressing the press with nato secretary general who's expressed solidarity of the organization with the u.k.

and they have both talked about the disruptive and malign behavior that they continue to accuse russia of however of course we know moscow has been saying this whole time that it has nothing to do with the script all poisoning. former british ambassador to as becky stern craig murray says british scientists are being very cautious in describing the origin of the nerve agent the scientists that the u.k. is biology at porton down which handles chemical weapons the fused to save this nerve agent was made in russia the british government put munda heavy pressure to say this nerve agent was made russian they said there's no evidence it's made in russia so in the end the formula was agreed which was that the nerve agent is of a type developed by russia biopics were developed here in edinburgh first penicillin is all of a type developed by scotland but it doesn't mean all penicillin is made in scotland

and the use of language you have to be very very careful with because they've never said this no the agent was made in russia or produced in the shower or manufactured in russia all they say all the time is it is over type developed by version alleged chemical formula producing the which works was published you can buy it from amazon it was published twelve years ago in a book and the of aliens with o.p.c. w. supervision synthesised chalks in twenty sixteen so many people can make this. well for more on these sound when our stories go to our team don't come i'll be back with the latest headlines in just over half an hour.

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classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round. we can all middle of the room say. hello and welcome to cross talk or all things are considered i'm peter lavelle winning his fourth and most probably last term as russia's president vladimir putin has six more years to fashion his legacy how his putin changed russia how will he

continue to change. across talking russia's presidential election i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have a big role leverage he is a political analyst as well as a leading expert at the center for actual politics and of course we have dimitri bobby he is a political analyst with sputnik international. in effect that means you can jump anytime you want and i always appreciated. your take away from this election and his reelection was obviously expected he got more percentage points and i think a lot of people were predicting this but not only that but i just took over the way more than i predicted just a few facts that i think are important for all of us to understand first quote. thirteen percent more than in two thousand and twelve. in two thousand and twelve wooden board sixty three percent of the vote forty five million russians voted for

him this time he got seventy six percent of the vote fifty five million russian voters voted for him why did it happen well between these two elections with the queen ukraine. crame year we had syria we asked the western campaign against russia and russia gate to gate. this british scandal now with scrape it all the olympics that's what i said the olympics it all helped put in i mean i think the wheat from of all day yesterday says it all he said i didn't plan to vote so he's a mate. then it's big. mean for outsiders looking in there are only two figures in the selection there was a lot of your putin obviously and then you're subject to the socialite she got what one point six seven percent of the vote i mean she actually went to washington d.c. campaign in washington d.c.

and nobody accused of. meddling in she went to live in d.c. and he couldn't imagine collusion edgerton there's a great image in. an american came to that openly going to moscow and meeting. russian officials in the kremlin and having lunch with them and discussing the presidential election in the united states what with this he was doing she got a lot of criticism here also got version of cynicism but not nowhere near what an american candidate would get over there and she was still looked at the part in the debates she was all that everywhere she went and if you were shown on television and central to it was she given fair coverage it sure was if your leadership was given fair coverage and in fact after the election was over she recognized that he's old she said the country voted for bush in. you know when when. the president gets seventy six percent he has political capital let's call it by any term that is

that it's a landslide you know what does this say about the opposition because earlier you were talking about the spectrum of political thought in this election go ahead first of all i think the communists running a new candidate a strawberry farm business many runs a strawberry farm commune with. yeah. he he did much better than the communists were expected to do even with putin's turnout he finished with twelve percent and i think this shows that this was the real protest vote in russia. as it were and it's maybe a vote to be even harder on foreign policy but more for social benefit because we'll talk about foreign policy and what was the election result for crimea was it ninety three percent voted for putin that's over that that is a very significant. that is responsible for crimea for me as being able

to vote in the russian elections if there were the same time russia the russian citizens living in ukraine were not allowed to vote they were blockaded from entering their own embassies by ukrainian police. there as you know there's a real commitment to democracy there go ahead well i think it's very interesting you know the west reaction it's very important the context for the west the fact that russians in crimea voted for the president isn't except it's a breach of international war they say that the fact that russian citizens in ukraine could not halt because of the ukrainian police the russian ambitious and why did the ukrainian police do it they said they were afraid. in two thousand. two thousand and fourteen well several dozen people were which was which was never

fully investigated and no one was ever held to account of all the international who did of course because there videotapes are video games on you tube it gets even worse because they put the people that were the victims and. some of them who are going to who would appreciate it but the judge in jail again when contacted churches let's say with the election mark what would it be. americans always say they vote for bread and butter issues with their pocketbook here or russians any different. someone but i think there's an element of that too and i think that would not have had as high turnout as he did if the economy had turned in the last year. a little over a year ago he reached a deal with the saudis to end the oil price war and that helped raise the macro economy starting about eight months ago and only in the last three or four months did we see that start to trickle into the real economy and we saw some growth and

some movement on salaries in russia and if that had happened i don't think it would have gotten quite as dramatic a show of support as he did how much how much is foreign policy playing into the minds of the electorate here because i mean russia is in the news in a big way i mean they're told about it one of the things that's really quite remarkable is the. russian federal stations they take. a tim lindsey graham's in the john mccain and everybody else that has something to say and they just let the russian viewer. absorb it themselves right there and it's not just instagram or drinking when you have the british prime minister he was in russia taking the u.k. audience hold soil or wage an came and go at that was something you know of course people react because these are some of the most powerful. people in the world didn't you that you are waging a war with no evidence you know when they're then america you know the most

powerful americans say that they're sure russia meddled in the reactions when they see russia will pay a price when the british parliament openly discuss a cyber attack against russia or of course for important she plays a role here but it's really going to be with mark with one think you know i think it was an interesting complain because economic issues played a role but not in the way the west would like them to a lot of people consider the border or the russian cabinet of ministers as to who live to pro west and to mourn interest and these people voted for gore didn't vote of confidence needed slogans was that. if my if mike form you know he is a. c.e.o. or with a successful farm if my farm had been run by cauldrons we would be bankrupt in two or three days a lot of russians agree with that because they can see that a lot of what it is what the central bank or the finance minister you know when

they see keep the russian economy open well i mean when you have course states such as i'm sorry i'm quoting. me you know when she called russia course that was state then i think we have the right to call a lot of the western. international organizations and it got very hostile and you know give yourself open to that that's a risky for sure russians understand it to do things obviously there's a lot of criticism leveled at the economics section of the game didn't but at the same thing it is these people. like them or not it is these people they are guaranteed russia's economy going through in a stable fashion through the period when massive massive sectoral section sanctions were introduced against russia by the united states of the russian by isn't by the e.u. but by other nations so there's. the russian central bank and the russian economy minister and other ministers that deal with this the proved themselves successful

in keeping the russian economy stable in this tough period but another thing also that western leaders like to see in the including boris johnson recently they have nothing against russian people the only against the russian government against bush you know who does all these different things fifty five but you know i don't know but what does this have or what do they do solve of these will say that the russian people were aware only in glee support fortunes policies so being against these against being is being against the russian people equals russia that we must be certain must be so disappointed with the people those much gnashing of teeth and wailing in the pulling out of the hair in the western circles i'd like to point out that however i agree with victor about the national reserve was that was built up that helped whether the sanctions on the oil price to begin with are going to that

but i will vote that those same neo liberals who built up didn't want to spend even to save the country during the financial crisis like this will be see the country for the wrong reasons they see if. you if you look at. the two thousand and eight financial crisis russia weathered that pretty well. in the same way that seeing the scene people sure that russia kept a stable that car i mean during that period and did it again this time so the record there is pretty good that's why they're still in their places because nothing to suggest nothing succeeds like success yes despite all the criticism the . results show there is yes thirty seconds mark before we're going to break there was a big ideological optional choices on the boat to communist to now. to liberals neo liberal. and putin and there was this little ideological going on with.

the display and the people still chose vladimir putin and vladimir putin is not seen as being very ideological and i think that's one of the attractions he has with the with the voters or gentlemen we go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on russia's presidential election stay with are today. i played for many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch to the final school it's about the

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