been counted preliminary results show vladimir putin has won a false term in the kremlin here's kevin nolan and niki aaron with our special coverage from red square in the heart of moscow. hello and welcome to our special studio almost goes like conic red square right next to the crimea as you can see the seat of russian yeah it's been a super sized election spanning eleven time zones across the seventeen million square kilometers off tyrants very long to do that is the blood they were approaching has secured a force to the russian president by a huge margin pavol group the men from the coleman is polities second and in. general ski from the liberal democratic party before heading over to his h.q. to address the crowd of supporters to have last minute pretend to give a speech at home said. it was mocking for years that since crimea has read the patient with russia correspondent dr david lynch that march eighteenth of course is important day for a number of reasons here in russia today of course is the presidential election but it's also the anniversary of the reunification with crimea it wa