they provided footage, we showed a lot in the news how people line up to cast their votes, in your opinion, what is this connected with, how do you explain it? this is connected with the drama of those events that the country is going through, it is connected with the current situation, it is connected with the fact that we are forced, in the literal sense of the word, with arms in hand, to defend the interests of our citizens, our people, and... create the future for the full, sovereign, safe development of the russian federation, our homeland, and uh, i think i don’t think so, but the results , including first of all the turnout, show that - people, ordinary people, first of all ordinary people feel it, understand that a lot, a lot depends on them, it’s on them, as i said just recently, in an interview

with dmitry kiselev, the average citizen of the country understood, understood in his heart, that he is in demand, the country needs him, the future of russia depends on him, the high turnout is connected with this, people came to create conditions conditions for internal consolidation, political consolidation. in order to move forward so that this unity allows us to act effectively on the line of combat contact in the economic sphere, development of the humanitarian sphere, social - implementation of social projects, we have a huge development agenda, people felt it in their hearts, came to create conditions for the development of strengthening the homeland of russia, that's... this

is what they associate with, please, please, thank you, nikita korzin, ntv television company, vladimir vladimirovich, what challenges do you see for your new presidential deadline, what challenges, challenges , well, first of all, we need to solve problems within the framework of a special military operation, strengthen defense capabilities, strengthen the armed forces, this is happening, we all see it at a very good pace from...

vladimir vladimirovich, hello, anna derkach, mir , what would you like to say to the citizens of russia right now this evening, i just said at a meeting with headquarters, i will be happy to repeat it again, i thank you all citizens of russia for the trust that you have shown me, i will do everything in my power for in order to solve the tasks that were set for the country and achieve.

the results of work over the past couple of years have shown that, in general, the administrative team, in the broad sense of the word, operates very effectively, and the results of the work, as i said recently, are satisfactory, this applies to the government, the central bank, and the presidential administration, the question is now to determine who will be in what place...

the vlasovites, well, they also fought against their homeland with weapons in their hands, than they finished, it is well known, then these people, these traitors and scum fought on the side of the nazis, now there are exactly the same

people who fight on the side of neo-nazis, the neo-nazi regime, these are completely obvious things, i think there is no need to repeat here if their main national hero is...

his homeland. we do not have the death penalty, but we went against our country in our hands; against these people we will always, now in the future, treat them as those who are in a war zone. we will assume that they with weapon. all law enforcement agencies will be given instructions to identify everyone by name. and take appropriate actions against people who are fighting against russia with weapons, and we will not give them peace, they should know about this, the effectiveness is minimal, even on the battlefield, commanders tell me

that it is immediately clear that these are irregular units, they go in a crowd and just go to the slaughter. as they say, in general, in this direction, in the direction of the state border, despite terrorist attacks, and you and i already know this well, citizens, those living in these territories have shown not only civic maturity, they are showing and have shown courage, no one, as i thought, assumed and spoke about this quite recently, no one intimidated them, they were not intimidated for...

their bodies, but the loss in general about 40% , of which about 35% are irrevocable, 25 tanks , there are dozens of armored vehicles and so on, if they like it that way, then in principle it

suits us, because they attack thoughtlessly, this is such a meat grinder for them, well, for us it’s even profitable, let them try. this means that there will be fewer personnel with whom it will be necessary to participate in hostilities in other sections of the contact line, in general... the initiative belongs entirely to the russian armed forces, in some areas our guys, their enemy, are now simply shredding the advance every day, gradually, carefully , but every day, this is a little more than active defense, well , we all see it like this, in any case, these are the people you said about, they have an unenviable fate, we guarantee them this, let's have a final question, come on... the other side, please, please, ria novosti, maria sidib, vladimir vladimirovich,

in these elections, some oppositionists, in particular from abroad, called today at noon to vote their supporters en masse against you, on at polling stations there were also cases of arson and damage to ballots with green paint, what do you think about this? well, as far as i understand, as far as i heard, and as they reported to me, calls were made to come vote at noon, and this should have been a manifestation opposition, well, if there were calls to come vote, for this, as i say in such cases, i will praise you for this, because when i spoke and called to come to vote, i was not campaigning for myself, i spoke as the current head states. it is my responsibility to ask people to come to the polling stations and vote, if the opposition

believed that they needed to come and vote , no matter for whom, but to come to vote, that ’s good, well done, well, well, as far as i understand, this had no effect in fact, but this is not important, what is important is that some people spoiled their ballots, this is bad, because if you yourself don’t want to vote or or... came, expressed your will, and another person came and spoiled their ballots, is that really

manifestation of democracy, these are the people we have to deal with, this is a criminal offense, in accordance with the law, our law enforcement agencies and courts will act. please, i beg you. vradimir vradimirovich, how do you assess the current state of development chinese russian relations , in your opinion, how will russia’s relations with china be in the future, for example, well, for your new term, thank you, look, now a very important event has taken place in china, and the national people’s congress of china , china is developing by leaps and bounds, at a fast pace, very confidently, and what is very important:

they are certainly doomed to complete failure, there is no doubt about it, i think that even

those who are trying to take such illegal actions, but our relations, they have developed over the previous two decades, they are very stable, they complement each other, i am sure that this interaction will continue, not least, probably, thanks to our personal friendly relations with... the chairman of the people's republic of china, this, of course, is not the most important thing, the most important thing is the coincidence of state interests, but this creates a very good tone for solving common problems and... in the field of international relations, where relations between russia and china are such a stabilizing factor from the point of view development of our activity in the eurasian space, and china is implementing its plan along this silk road, one

train and one track, a very important initiative of the chairman, in my opinion. there are a lot of coinciding points of interest in the economic sphere and in the foreign policy sphere. i am sure that in the coming years we will only strengthen all this, build up our relations and achieve common successes for the benefit of the chinese and russian people. yes, andrey, please, now please give the wheelman, the wheelmen in the middle, the wheel in the middle here, i beg you, kommersant newspaper. vladimir vladimirovich, about the situation in general and the microphone, about the situation in general and about the results, albeit preliminary, tell me, is this what you dreamed of? i dreamed of a strong, independent, sovereign russia, i hope that the voting results will allow us all, together with the russian people , to achieve these goals. please, and

hello, ta. but in any situation we will always proceed from the interests of the russian federation. and the situation in the combat contact zone, of course. you know, we, i kept saying, i repeat once again, we are for peaceful negotiations, but not because the enemy is running out of ammunition, but for, if they are really

serious, in the long term, they want to build peaceful ones. good neighborly relations between the two states, and not take a break for rearmament for one and a half to two years, these are very serious issues, and as for the olympic games, international officials distort the whole meaning of the olympic movement, olympism, they undermine the very foundations of international sports, this is a separate topic, please, yes, take it, yes, give it, yes anyway, please, yes, and then... mr. mr. president, excuse a question in english, my colleague will uh translate kier simans from nbc news. um, mr. president, journalist evan gorshkavic spent this election in prison. boris nadierstin, who opposes your war in ukraine wasn't allowed to stand against you, and alexi navalni died in one of your prisons during your campaign. mr.

president, is this what you call democracy? election campaign, then this is first and foremost the result is not , well, unsatisfactory, unsatisfactory work in the preparation for these elections, it was necessary, probably, to work more actively with your supporters, not to make mistakes, not to allow falsification of those elected on these ballots, and so on, there is also the question, in my opinion, but as far as i know , i don’t know this for sure, but in my opinion the point

is precisely this, that the required number of votes was not collected to participate in the vote, that’s all, that means, first, second, as for mr. navalny, yes, he passed away, this is always a sad event, well, we had other cases when people in places of deprivation of liberty passed away, but didn’t this happen in the united states, it happened more than once, by the way, well , i’ll tell you, it will be so unexpected, a few days before mr. navalny leaves his life - some colleagues told me, and not just administration employees, some people there said that there is an idea to exchange. mr. navalny on some people who are in prison in western countries, you can believe me , you can not, the person who spoke to me

had not yet finished the sentence, but i said, i agree, but unfortunately, what happened happened, only on one condition said that we let's change it so that he doesn't come back, let him sit there, that's all, but this happens. there’s nothing you can do about it, that’s life, if you want to know my opinion about whether our elections are democratic or not, i believe that they are democratic on the contrary, in some countries, well, for example, in your country, is it really possible consider it democratic to use administrative resources to attack one of the candidates for... the presidency of the united states, using, among other things, the courts. we have no preference for any of the candidates for

president of the united states of america. we will work with someone who voters trust. but the use of administrative resources, the judicial system, but this has simply become a ridiculous disgrace to the whole world for the united states and for your democratic, so-called in quotes systems. i have every reason to believe that we are not seeing any democracy today, at least during the election processes in some western countries, including the united states, so accept the answer, please, please, yes, now we are all - we’ll move in with you, hello, vladimir vladimirovich, i congratulate you on the victory of the ukrainian news agency. over the past few months, you have met a lot with people and noted more than once that russian women can do a lot,

our girls have even become military pilots, please tell me, in our governor’s corps for the last five years there is probably only one woman, and if there are women on the list of candidates for the position of governors, can this happen, what is already possible this year . you suggest that one of them try to become a governor, it is clear that first before the elections, and then as the people decide. thank you. there are few women in our government. but, you know, when making such personnel decisions, we are not guided gender considerations, but considerations of personal, business qualities, and professional training. well, of course, i personally believe that the more women there are in management bodies. in municipal, regional, federal , so much the better, we will strive for this, yes, please, i ask you, thank you, my name is

ksenia zherebtsova, tv channel 360, the question is, returning to the topic of elections, the past 3 days, both in the moscow region, and and throughout the country, foreign observers from 129 countries were doing their job, did you receive from them? some kind of feedback, so we know that... that they have said more than once that they would like to learn from the experience of organizing elections, so tell me, shall we share? well , of course, what’s secret here is all in plain sight, we also won’t tell you a big secret now, a couple, well, a few years ago there were doubts, say, some administration employees, some on the contrary, they talked about the need to expand the possibility of electronic voting, someone was against it, well... for various reasons, but in the end, the point still won from the point of view of those who considered that this is transparent , civilized, in a modern way, gives the opportunity to the vast majority of people

to exercise their civil rights, the mayor - sobyanin also insisted on this, ultimately we began to expand this practice, firstly, it, it’s, uh, it’s transparent, it’s absolutely objective, it’s not like voting in the united states. by mail, no, you started smiling, and this matters, well, voting by mail, what is it? here comes a man, today we, well in the states, sometimes run out of time voting, ballots can be thrown in until 12:00 at night, because the postmark is put on the post office on those days that have not yet ended, then we had a number, a large number of observers, yes, including from foreign countries. and it doesn’t matter whether they have anything to do with the obsv there or not, these are independent people, they are sitting, and the party representatives are standing, watching how

the voting process is going, but is there something here?

you know what it is, in my opinion, it is that after the collapse of the soviet union, a very large number there were specialists left on the soviet union who knew nothing more than how to fight the soviet union, and then with the russian territory that had arisen on part of the territory, so they began to convince their political leadership, the public of their countries that they needed to continue to achieve russia and in such a way as

not to be left without work.

gololodkov, when asked how to actually solve this problem, said that in order to ensure the security of the belgorod region, it is necessary to annex kharkovskaya, what do you think about this now, i’m not ready to say right now. this is about what and how we should annex when, but i do not rule out that, bearing in mind the tragic events taking place today, we will be forced at some point, when we consider it appropriate, to create a certain sanitary zone in today’s territories of subordinates for the kiev regime, it means creating a security zone to overcome,

which will be quite difficult. using the means of destruction that the enemy uses, first of all, of course, foreign production, that the depth , once again, what the depth of such a zone could be, this, this is a separate question, yes, regarding the formation, therefore, of the future management complex, the building, you know, because when i said about ... in in this project, it’s time for heroes, i repeat once again, this is for me, i’m not exaggerating, i’m not making anything up, it came to mind right when i met with the guys who participated in a special military operation in st. petersburg, all of them are people with higher education from among university students or graduates, and it came to me of course, a simple thought came to mind, which i then tried to formulate, trying to organize now, so that from these number of these guys, who do not spare themselves in the interests of their homeland, they fight -