in russia, votes are being counted in the presidential elections; more than 98% of the ballots have already been processed. vladimir putin leads by a record margin, with 87.34% of the vote. after the announcement of the first results, the head of state answered questions from journalists at a press conference, watch it now.

"good evening, please, if there are any questions, i ask you, yes, good evening, vich, alexander khristenko, vgtrk, louder, alexander khristenko, vgtrk, good evening, you have an incredibly high result in these elections, at the same time , these elections were marked also an extremely high turnout, and not only on our territory

." people to create a future for the full, sovereign, safe development of the russian federation, our homeland, and i think i don’t think so, but the results, including, first of all , the turnout, show that ordinary people, above all ordinary people, feel this , understand that from them, from them a lot, a lot...

at a very good pace with excellent quality, but all the main tasks of the country’s development were recently set out in a message to the federal meeting, our task is to use the trust of the citizens of the russian federation to do everything that depends on us to ensure that all the assigned tasks are solved, all goals are achieved.

country and achieve those goals that we consider absolutely priority, thank you , please,

created by the traitor to the homeland vlasov, the vlasovites, well, they also fought against their homeland with weapons in their hands, how they ended up 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 bandera, who served under hitler, well, there is nothing to prove, however there are less such people, there are several groups of them, here is the one you said, there is some kind of volunteer corps, there are also four

groups, the total number is somewhere around 2,500 people, now they are being thrown like meat into assaults, meat assaults , that's for sure... they took up arms in their hands against their country, against their homeland. we don't have the death penalty. but we will always, now in the future, treat these people as those who are in a combat zone.

let's assume that they are armed. all law enforcement agencies will be given instructions. identify everyone by name and take appropriate action against people who are fighting against russia with weapons, and we will not give them peace, they must know about this, and the effectiveness is minimal, even on the battlefield the commanders tell me that it is immediately clear that these are irregular units, they are coming in a crowd and - well, just 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 are already good we know that the citizens living in these territories

have shown not just civic maturity, they are showing and showing courage, no one, as i thought, assumed and spoke about this quite recently. no one intimidated them, no one intimidated them, it is impossible to intimidate our people, it’s just there turnout in new territories, in border areas, turnout is even higher than in the country as a whole.

five tanks, there are dozens of armored vehicles and so on, well, if they like it that way, then in principle it suits us, because they attack mindlessly, it’s such a meat grinder for them, well, it’s even beneficial for us, let them try , which means there will be fewer personnel with whom it will be necessary to participate in hostilities in other sections of the contact line, and...

i heard it reported to me that calls were made to come vote at noon, and this

it should have been a manifestation of opposition, well, if there were calls to come to vote, for this, as i say in such cases, i will praise for it, because when i spoke and called to come to vote, i was not campaigning for myself , i said... as the current head of state, 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 and vote , that’s good, well done, well, as far as i understand, this had no effect in fact, but this is not important, what is important is that some spoiled the ballots, this is bad, because if you yourself don’t want to vote...

what kind of democracy is there? people came, expressed their will, and another person came and spoiled their ballots, is this a manifestation of democracy? these are the people we have to deal with, this is a criminal offense, our law enforcement agencies and courts will act in accordance with the law. please, i beg you.

i am very confident and what is very important, the structure of china's economy is changing towards innovation towards tradition.

first of all, this is due to attempts to arrange provocations around taiwan, which are certainly an integral part of the people's republic of china, and the sanctions that are applied to china in order to slow down its development, they are certainly doomed to complete failure, there is no doubt about it, i think even those who are trying to take such illegal actions. thanks to the chairman of the people's republic of china, over the previous two decades, they are very stable, they complement each other, i am sure that this interaction will continue, including, not least of all, probably our personal friendly relations with but, our relations, they have developed for

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. to solve common problems in the field of international relations, where relations between russia and china are such a stabilizing factor from the point of view the development of our activity in the eurasian space, and china is implementing its plan along this silk road, one belt, one road, is very important, in my opinion.

hello tas news agency, macron recently said that he will ask russia for a ceasefire in ukraine, macron recently said that he will ask russia for a ceasefire in ukraine during the olympics in paris in the summer, is russia ready to consider this proposal, on what conditions, will it depends on the participation or non-participation of our

athletes in the olympics, thank you, i don’t know about this statement by the french president. i am ready to consider any issues, but in any situation we will always proceed from the interests of the russian federation, and the situation in the zone of military contact, of course, you know, i said all the time, i will repeat again, we are for peaceful negotiations, but not because the enemy's ammunition runs out, and for, if they are really serious, in the long term. they want to build peaceful, good-neighborly relations between the two states, and not take a break for rearmament for one and a half to two years, this is what very serious questions, and as for the olympic games, international officials are distorting the whole meaning of the olympic movement, olympism, they are undermining the very foundations

of international sports, this is a separate issue, please, yes, take it, yes, give it, nbc, kier simons, my question: american journalist, evan gershkovitch, is among many who conducted elections in prison.

in my opinion, the whole point is precisely this, that the required number of votes was not collected for , as i know, i don’t know this for sure, but participation in voting, 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 prison passed away, but didn’t this happen in the united states,

happened more than once, by the way, well , i’ll tell you, it will be so unexpected, a few days before mr. navalny’s departure from his life, some colleagues told me, and not not 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 his sentence, and i said: i agree, but unfortunately, what happened happened only with one conditions, he said that we will change him, so that he does not come back, let him sit there, that’s all. but this happens, nothing can be done about it, that’s life,

if you want to know my opinion on whether our elections are democratic or not, i believe that democratic, on the contrary, in in some countries, well, for example, in your country, how can it be considered democratic to use administrative resources to attack one of the... candidates for president of the united states, including through 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 shame for the whole world for the united states and for your democracy. in any case

, we are not observing today during the election processes in some western countries, including the united states, so accept the answer.

does she really read minds or not? the premiere, anna ostrovskaya, the investigative committee, she has

a special gift, who are you all? it looks like, well, there’s a girl standing covered in rags, maybe this dream of mine is somehow connected with this case, and you know who the killer is, yes, look, just don’t do anything on your own, stand still, don’t move, here i am for some reason i believe, ann medium, watch it before everyone else, in the app or on the website. hello, vladimir vladimirovich, congratulations on your victory ura news agency ekaterina lazareva. vladimir vladimirovich, over the past few months you have met a lot with people, you have repeatedly noted that russian women can do a lot, our girls even became military pilots, please tell me, we have been in the governor’s corps for the last five years, probably in total one woman, what if on

the list? on the list of candidates for the position there are women governors, and could it happen that this year you might invite one of them to try to become a governor, it is clear that first before the elections, and then as the people decide, thank you, we have few women in the government, but you know, when making such personnel decisions, we are guided not by gender considerations, but by considerations of personal business qualities. professional training - well, of course, i personally believe that the more women there are in governing bodies, in municipal, regional, federal, 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 throughout

the country, foreign observers from 129 countries were doing their job, did you get any feedback from them? we know 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, we have everything in plain sight, we also don’t have a big secret to tell you now, a couple, well, a few years ago there were doubts, say, some administration officials , some, on the contrary, spoke about the need to expand the possibilities of electronic voting, someone was against it, well, for various reasons, but in the end, the point of view of those whoever thought that this is transparent, civilized , in a modern way, gives the opportunity to the vast majority of people to exercise their civil rights, mayor sobyanin also insisted on this, ultimately we began to expand this practice, firstly, it is...

in the states, voting by mail, no , now you’re smiling, and this matters, well , voting by mail, what is it, here ’s a person, here today, well, in the states , voting time ends someday, you can put up to 12 ballots in :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 for strange states, and it doesn’t matter whether they have anything to do with the osce there or not, these are independent people, they sit, and party representatives stand watching the voting process, and here what is it like to vote by mail in the united states of america, who stands there and controls, but no one, they bought it for 10 dollars. vote, and then

they bought thousands of votes, came in a bunch , threw it in until 12:00 at night, that’s it , here’s voting, here’s democracy, which means we don’t have anything like that, but, of course, we are improving our system of democratic procedures during election campaigns, and of course, we will be happy and ready to share with everyone who wants it and is friendly to what we do. yes, now, now there, here for you, and here we’ll finish a couple more, okay, okay, please, i ask you, vladimir vladimirovich, i join in the congratulations of the citizens of rush today, your result, which, the percentage that you gain in the elections, is of course, a very serious slap in the face to all external forces who tried to undermine our internal political system here, who met in the european parliament, who in principle

proposed... very serious efforts.