vladimir putin was not a fan of hillary clinton. >> of course putin wanted hillary clinton to lose.ton. >> prime minister, we have a lot of problems -- >> reporter: the tension here brewing for years. in 2001, another american leader, george w. bush, vouched for putin. >> i was able to get a sense of his soul. >> thank you. thank you. thank you. >> reporter: but on the campaign trail in 2008, hillary had a different take. >> i could have told him he was a kgb definition. by definition, he doesn't have a soul. i mean, this is a waste of time, right? >> mrs. clinton said you as a kgb agent, by definition can have no stole. >> reporter: his reply, statesmen shouldn't be judged by their life. >> he is a very arrogant person to deal with. we have to stand up to his bullying. he is somebody who will take as much as epossibhe possibly can. >> reporter: but it is what happened in 2011 that marked a point of no return. [ chanting ] >> reporter: it began with the arab spring protest early that year. the kind of popular uprising that putin dreaded. >> he begins to see himself through the eyes

putin is very russian. there's a big inferiority complex about how the west doesn't take a serious a d.c. has says the kind of retarded little brother that they can just kick and insult all the time they had been a great power that was on par with the u.s. that was calling the shots all over the world and now people don't even listen to them. not only was the west not listening to russia it was also moving closer and closer to russia with its bases. in the summer of two thousand and twelve a civil war had been raging for over a year in syria an old ally of russia the opponents of president bashar al assad received weapons from europe and the u.s. . there was no doubt in putin's mind that the west had ordered a regime change as it had done in two thousand and three in iraq and in libya where the deposed president won or gadhafi had just been killed. when vladimir putin got a hold of the video of khadafi being killed lynched in the streets. so he watched that video on repeat he just watched over. and over and

putin on a successful farce. and related to me was the statement by the justice who congratulated not only mr. putin but the people of russia on the presidential election. i must say to you appears either as a mockery when we hear that from a leader of a western democratic country. >> well stated. >> we can hear. we can hear. >> how would you explain the voted for vladimir putin? ont is your parties decision the russian language schools? regime.y yourou going to use influence in the west -- are you going to -- what is your opinion on its effects? the propaganda? they are using it as we speak. thank you. >> thank you for the question. we have people with very different views. left, right, liberal, social. we are not yet in that stage in our country. we are looking forward to having this kind of differences. we're not very basically having free election. having the rule of law, independent judicial system. these are issues we are working on end involved in. so we have positions on many things. if you want my own pe

putin and his regime.e must lay the groundwork. >> there have been a couple news stories suggesting that russian millennials were actually voting for putin. i would appreciate your comment. >> we should not consider those results from yesterday as any kind of a serious indicator. what we do know about millennials is how many of them took to the streets this last year, all across russia to actively protest against putin. to protest against the government in russia is not like protesting against president trump in the u.s. there were threats. people were threatened from being fired from their jobs and expelled from universities. 200,000 cities and more. the first wave of protests was about a year ago in june. him so many of those protesters were in their late teens and early 20's. we do not know how they would have voted in a real election because we do not have a real election. more and more, we are prepared to go out and show that they have a different vision of russia in mind, not a russia that is governe

but putin had no intention of stopping. moscow is now also suspected of having interfered in the twenty sixteen breck said referendum and in the french presidential elections in the spring of twenty seventeen. yes and because i was a dual national but. you know i think that putin is a very complicated mix of someone who is tactically quite shrewd. but at the same time he he is caught up in his own rhetoric in the long run is this a win for russia that it's isolated that it faces economic sanctions this is undoubtedly the price putin has paid for his revenge on the west for now it has allowed him to hold on to power in russia but where will his desire for revenge leave. how far is president vladimir putin prepared to go. all the good crises if you felt that if you when you got collapse you would even though. alam. furnishings can be a lot more than just functional. plane with. combining. zoom and. design in your lomax thirty minutes on. the scars on. the pain. from the bug. they have survived but do they also have a future.

so far from undermining putin it underlines that it from undermining putin it underlines thatitis fromin it underlines that it is with his agenda. that's right, iam that it is with his agenda. that's right, i am strong and i am winning. all of this, there has always been a winning card to say the rest of the world is attacking us and failing so whoever did it, they did it to help putin's re—election and make him strong. so you think it takes more people to the ballot and takes more people to the ballot and takes more people to the ballot and takes more people to make their cross in his box? it strengthens the idea that russia is at war with the west and the west is trying to take advantage of it, no doubt about that. it is nice to agree with alexander for a change, i think the timing of this was bizarre, it would not help putin and the question is to what extent was this activity within his control. i don't know. i think russia is a fairly chaotic place. i think these agents are around. i think these agents are around. i think there are a lot of people who might want to take vengeance.

what you think the aim is for putin? years he has been in power. he wants to restore the greatness of the former soviet empire, the former russian influence in the world, and he's winning. his idea, they call it political technology, is proving the winning idea because it's winning on all the kind of theatres in which he has pushed and pushed and he keeps pushing. nobody seems able really to do anything about it. so i think that is what he wants to do, especially in the former satellite countries of the soviet union. he wants to restore a firm grip. alexander, what do you think that will mean for people outside russia, putin's agenda? it seems there is a degree of unanimity about what that agenda is, what do you think it will mean for people outside russia? first of all i find it absolutely unbelievable that russia is supposedly fixing a grip on its neighbours when it lost influence in every neighbouring country, every neighbouring country has lost to the influence of... alexander, we have got literally less than two min

putin. >> why would you allow an attack like this on the united states? >> why have you decided the russian authorities gave anybody permission to do this? >> this is some sort of nonsense. >> come on -- >> nyet. >> come on -- >> this is all a smokescreen. none of this could or would have happened without the direct authority of the man who sits in the kremlin. >> reporter: putin on trump -- >> never a harsh word for you. >> reporter: putin on syria -- >> do you believe the chemical weapons attacks in syria are fake news? >> of course. first of all, the syrian government long ago destroyed their chemical weapons. we're not even interested in it. i just feel like saying -- simply boring. >> the bodies of dead children thanks to sarin gas attacks, that's boring? >> reporter: and will america be attacked again? >> so what does that mean for our elections in 2018, in 2020? we can expect more of the same? >> i didn't say that we don't have the goal of putting an end to it. >> you just said that.

it damages putin's and russia's image.d cup coming up, it would be suicide for anyone in moscow to think it would benefit us. putin does not have a problem because he is popular. his opponents are not strong. so why would he suddenly think, i need to get more votes for myself? it doesn't work like this. you think it's no coincidence but it is a troublemaker trying to undermine president putin before his re—election? it undermines russia. let's take that around the table, coincidence or not? i don't think it is a coincidence, it's possible it is a botched operation, there's lots of things, we cannot be sure how this happened. i think it's likely however that because there was the call for a boycott... by the opposition leader, who is barred from standing... yes, there is sensitivity about the results of the election, turnout matters, speculation that playing the "the west is against us" card, which is very powerful for putin and has been for a long time and has deep historical roots in russian attitudes towards the world, t

he says it is wrong to demonize vladimir putin, start planning for a post-putin russia. we also welcome gemma porzgen, commentator for the -- she says -- posener says his army of internet trolls poisons the political atmosphere in the west. 's aim is to paralyze democracy. -- his aim is to paralyze democracy. gemma says, it's always the same reflects: whenever happens, it was mcow. this is the first offensive use of a nurse -- nerve agent in europe since world war ii. are you shocked, alan? alan: i'm not shocked, disgusted. it is stupid to say you are shocked. this will happen sooner or later. the couple of years ago, another ex-russian spy was poisonewith polonium in london. nuclear, if you will, a weapon used against britain, and now they have used a chemical weapon against britain. this is the face of russian imperialism. leaders of the u.k., france, and germany have come out with aoierve agent attack as an assault on u.k. sovereignty. they say it is highly likely that russia was behind it. you say that russia always gets the blame. you seemed to be doubting that russ

putin.henever russia is accused of something indiscriminately and without any evidence, the russian people unite around the center of power and that is putin. do you agree that this crisis with the u.k. played to mr. putin's strength or favor? >> i don't think it was a decisive factor in the victory of mr. putin, but i can imagine that it added some votes to the victory of mr. putin. indeed, the general perception here in moscow that the british accusations are not fair, that they are premature and when it gets down to a situation like that, the country usually rallies around its leader. moreover, i should say that whether you like it or not, but the foreign policy of mr. putin is perceived by the majority of russians as a successful foreign policy, not as something that russians should be ashamed of or should regret. >> so that's an interesting point. the russians like what he's doing abroad. do you agree that the assessment is unfair by the british and by the west to what happened in the u

talking nice to putin is gonna change that. there maybe small areas where we have a mutual interest strong enough to work together but largely our interests diverge. (rockets fire) - mistrust of russia is well-founded in many areas. that said, i don't think we should just say that this will always be the case. - y'know sadly there isn't enough of a disagreement. it's as if we sleepwalk into a new cold war without the debate that this country demands and deserves. - the yays are 98, the nays are 2 and the bill as amended is past. (suspenseful music) - [narrator] putin faces domestic pressure. with a troubled economy, he shores up support at home by playing great power politics with the u.n. - [schiff] sanctions i think can be very effective. the russians fear nothing more than a collapse or degradation of the russian economy leading to mass protests which could lead to putin's ouster. - he's reliant on the continued support of a number of the oligarchs. a number of the multi-billionaires. - [polyakova] russia is not a democracy

do you support that element putin's message? do you support that element of putin's message? he gives to the russian people. he — the message is different. mostly the message is for the west. and this message could be read as "you don't want to talk to us when we are weak — we think that you will talk with us when we will be strong." i think the perception of the situation in the world is different, between the west and putin. he thinks the west made many mistakes against russia. i partly agree with that, because in the 90s, the west did not support russian in the democratic processes. we thought there would be huge educational programmes. thousands of russians will go to the west to learn about democracy and the market economy. it didn't happen. of course, nato is coming closer and closer to the russian borders. putin considers that not understanding of the russian interest in the world. sorry to interrupt. i don't mean to be rude. there is a time delay on the line and if the answers are too long, we will not get through all of the important issues that we need to get throug

or a servant of vladimir putin, a colluder with vladimir putin. so while he spent the day furious and embarrassed by the leak to not congratulate. we had to publically be proud of the thing that we know embarrasses him. so he tweeted i called president putin of russia to congratulate him on his election victory. the l.a. times is reporting one person who speaks regularly with white house officials said the most recent leak seemed more geared toward infantilizing trump who has ignored numerous suggestions that he rebuke putin. i'm sure there's going to be a scalping over this. how is the leakiest white house in history going to catch the person or persons responsible for this particular leak? we now know that all of the white house leakers have signed a completely ridiculous and unenforceable confidentiality agreement that they violate every time they leak something. it was the trump family's idea to force them to sign the nondisclosure agreements. ivanka trump was a cheerleader of the idea. it was a stupid idea. in all of the reporting today, ever

there was a big victory of putin know and we will live with putin for the next six years and so thereare many more. it will see this yes and into we have i think we still need a common policy on this. where we can't only focus on incidents like this but you need also to develop a certain strategy absolutely being cautious i think we agreed on this and to to to see certain dangers which rich are in. government but but still i think with this very black and white picture we are not prepared enough to have had a black for a while they said because black and white picture would paint us as purely white but it is a black picture when it comes to putin's imperialism and it is not the whole of russia and well not all policies but you know you just said he had enormous victory or seventy percent i mean it's like it's not quite soviet you know style that would be ninety nine point nine nine percent but it's huge and it's huge because he didn't have any real opposition so you know we agree on this i mean look at the muscle the fallen must not in in france is a client of moscow's and the f.t. in

putin. declaring victory on the election on sunday this is his fourth, six-year term. hosting the discussion. >>> good afternoon, i'm njohn hertz. i run the center here. we have a wonderful event for you this afternoon. we had an election yesterday in russia that had a result which was not unexpected. there are nuances worth exploring and we have a panel here to provide that exploration for you. you have bios, so i will not read through them. let me introduce them from my left. ambassador and former secretary. one of the most active people writing. and she fits the same description. and one of the world's greatest when it comes to economies. i would be interested in your skpru take on the most significant things with yesterday's election and what it means going forward for russian politics. >> thank you, john. it is a pleasure and it is fine to be here and to be apart of this panel. i will give you a couple of breaststrokes. very fast in an accrued way. firstly, including president putin tha

to go through i voted for putin because i don't see any alternative. i've made the right decision i think in that i voted for putin everything he does works for me. for putin there's not much of a choice shall we say. as they say i chose the lesser of two evils. there are claims that in some parts of russia employers have been putting pressure on staff to turn out to vote and there are reports of other irregularities. alexei navalny and opposition need to have banned from standing in this election claims voter turnout is lower than in two thousand and twelve. yet the results from our observers show that in some regions of russia at least those where the so-called elections have already finished the turnout is lower than in two thousand and twelve that's even taking into account all the pressure that took place. on the may have called on russians to boycott this election but it looks like a done deal for the man who's dominated this country for a whole generation. let's bring in emily sure one our correspondent in moscow emily you're there in the heart

and, of course, if we had had a democratic election, putin would not have won, lam election, putin wouldn, i am pretty sure of this. but in the environment of an authoritarian state, it is absolutely, and of control over the media what we have right now in russia, and of no real competition of course it is a predictable result, and i am not surprised at all. as i have been mentioning, there are thousands of supporters gathered on the other side of red square, holding a concert this evening, and about to join them is my next guest. you very happy this evening. very happy this eveninglj very happy this evening. i am excited and very happy. being here with a very nice view in mother russia, being with such a great day for my country, with such a good result, i am for my country, with such a good result, lam happy for my country, with such a good result, i am happy tonight. the turnout, though, not as good as vladimir putin had hoped. he said he wa nted vladimir putin had hoped. he said he wanted 70%, it is only 60%.ij vladimir putin had hoped. he said he wanted 70%, it is only 60%. i think

vladimir putin there and his supporters.g is under way in the russian presidential election. a huge effort, you can imagine in a ca nd reva a huge effort, you can imagine in a candreva size of this, 11 different time zones, 97,000 polling stations we re time zones, 97,000 polling stations were open today across russia. we saw some scenes of cosmonauts boating in space, even down in antarctica, polling stations were open there. it has been an incredibly busy day, quite festive at some of the polling stations, i was at one earlier, there were people singing, a man with an accordion, people playing sports as well. there was all very festive, but with a wrap—up of what has been happening around the country for us, here's our moscow correspondent, steve rosenberg. it looked more like a show than an election. russian polling stations providing free entertainment to boost the turnout. inside, you could cast a ballot, and cast an eye at the art. pride of place here reserved for a legendary russian ruler, who had battled the west. th

putin's russia if putin was behind this then what this amounts to is surely state sponsored terrorismit is but that is no proof behind it and this always has to be seen and taken into account look there was a russian expert on chemical weapons who as proof positive that the russian state wasn't behind this if we had been behind this the man would be dead already this is the kind of cynicism we have to deal with you having been in russia and on to also know that the whole sort of k j b slash. corporate private terrorism even down to tensions operating somewhere in the south of russia that is the whole continuum of a continuum of power but in the end if putin wanted to stop it he could if he can't it's almost even worse so the fact is we have a russian state surrounded by terrorist agents who are. even who possibly act on their own account in but it's in order for the kremlin to have plausible deniability but the fact is when there is a power center there which employs terrorism as a matter of course against its enemies in russia and outside russia and this is what we have to deal with

beringia corruption that's for certain they're not necessarily anti putin or anti anti putin's foreign policy survey or you know we're caught in a way so what we hope for generational change and i think we should generational change because it will inevitably bring something we weren't necessarily bring some kind of nice cozy comfy russian liberal democracy. it it's more like he's a very soft changes around the edges so we don't see this is somewhat exceptional we do see a hard line conservative nationalist in power we do see if it's going to be election results point i mean you know then that kind of happy of seventy percent if you're an ass natural to us you have to have ninety nine point nine nine percent in western liberal democracy is your kind of happy with what you put a five percent so we're always going to see that kind of thing from russia it's not it's going to be a while before it becomes what you and i might regard a normal west western european style state if you know as we view ok if we look at just the next six years that will bring it back a little bit have a what does

without putin if you take putin out of the picture and well he's just a mortal man then suddenly you're going to have have very destabilized russian ruling class fight infighting openly inside itself as right now it's infighting but it's kind of they all go to putin and he they have dress him and they put different ideas and he's trying to find a middle ground saying will decrease defense spending at the same time a continued the friend spending we're going to kickstart the economy it's trying to make reforms in all directions and the result is not very effective the people still hope that put in will pull off the trick as it was in the year from the year two thousand to two thousand they're around and that there's going to be robust growth that he can do it puts him a believes that sue on a flan could rip. can pull off the trick and the kick start the economy but if it doesn't we're going to be in the very strange situation where on the face of it it's a very stable regime where for public support but it's split inside russia economy not growing the problems are going to pile up yeah o

i trust putin and i like the way he. they are a of choice is not all it seems a series of televised election debates over the past fortnight featuring seven of the eight candidates minus putin of course quickly descended into a circus like fast in fact circus is a word the kremlin has used to describe the other seven election candidates so it's more a show of democracy than the real thing. conspicuously absent from the ballot is this man alexina valmy and to corruption lawyer turned opposition figure who's led enormous street protests in the past he's putin's most outspoken critic barred from taking part after a conviction for embezzlement a charge he says was politically motivated novelli has called on his supporters to boycott the election as the voting day wore on low turnout what the kremlin really cares about seem to be high so to the number of alleged voter violations reported on social media big numbers will add legitimacy to the putin victory and it does appear that big numbers have turned out to vote jonah for i

so pavel let's just start with you because the key question here that least the one that putin wants to know is is it looking like a large enough turnout to legitimize this phase or apparently yes oh and occasions are that this rather robust and the u.s. president's words in reports and would be reelected than is being reacted rise as we speak and there was never doubt that he would be reelected and apparently he'll get a good turnout and a good man mandate for another six years he wanted this seventy seventy seventy percent turnout and seventy percent of that vote was that a bit too ambitious or do you think he's actually going to get that well we'll get to see the exact figures as they're announced of course and maybe in moscow it will be less and then big cities somewhere in the caucasus and other places that could be over one hundred percent and over one hundred percent voting for putin why not say eric unchurched yeah so no nor he'll get you know he'll get a rebuffed mandate there's no doubt about that ok so no doubt about a robust mandate but out of there was a huge campaign wa

putin worked as a young man. citing ivan the terrible, the only thing people remember about him is that he dealt with his enemies and he was feared. that is what we remember of stalin. that is what putin wants to be remanded for. he deals with he is enemies and he -- remembered for. he deals with his enemies and he is feared. the election results were foreseeable and he could use it. on t the one hand, people who admire mr. putin will say he deals with his enemies. people who don't agree with mr. putin will say, being attacked again so we will vote for the strong man who supports russia. it is win-win for him. there is no way the west can not run into the trap. either weak, or we react with strong words and say the truth, russia is behind this, and then people accuse us of always singling out moscow. sisisisisisisisisisisisisisisisw because it happens to be moscow who does these terrible things. gemma: i find this pattern of thinking dangerous. it is very much cold war thinking. we live in a different world. alan

iam tell myself you're an opponent of putin? i am an opponent of putin but ime favour of russia.don for many years. i'd children have british passports and what i see now happening... did not know what to call it, it is a circus or whatever, that people just do not talk to each other, this is complete nonsense. you want reform, you want to open up the russian economy, modernise it and massive international investment in russia but do you not see it with the attitude of vladimir putin right now, you are not going to get any of that. you are going to get sanctions, more international isolation and less investment... maybe you think like that but with more free economy in russia, there will be investment and foreign investment. the politics are politics but we know, we're practical people, businessmen, we know that, to the soviet union, there was foreign investment from written, they were coming because, if there was a trust even at that time, we can talk, and when we talk figures, investments, mutual projects... in fact, it is going the other way. it is not going the other way. exx

they're going to get that i have to vote for putin. he didn't because there's no alternative of course we hope for a change for the better we've been hoping for fifteen years. but i don't see any improvement. there's little enthusiasm but few speak openly about putin like elsewhere in the country people are afraid. i don't talk about politics i'm afraid of politics i know who the candidates but i will say silent. the media portray putin as a patriotic father figure he shows off new weapons he says can penetrate western defenses strong feelings of national pride quickly overcome doubts one might have about putin's policies. and has a following like no other candidate the recent friction with the west is likely to help bring his voters home. thank god putin's head now has helped bring back a dying russia from its nice since the year two thousand and two. briefly back over to you that m.l.a. who all the other candidates do they have even the slightest chance. it doesn't look like and if the other candidates on the ballots they have much o

all the limelight will be as expected meeting with president putin several weeks time and i think it also demonstrates that actually china could. you know its way over north korea well the u.s. ambassador to the united nations has all members of the security council should be ashamed that the bombing of eastern route of continues despite a cease fire agreement that gailey blamed russia and syria for what she calls a slaughter but her syrian counterpart struck back saying the area has now been liberated from brussels five people are facing charges related to a fire in a russian shopping center that killed sixty four people forty one of them children the tragedy sparked a rare protest on the streets of moscow and the siberian city where it happened demanding justice for the victims some of gyptian zur facing a campaign of intimidation and bribes to push them into voting in the presidential election it's part of an effort to boost turnout on the third and final day of the vote which president top in fact that has sisi is certain to win facebook boss mark zuckerberg role reportedly testi

putin administration? joining me now is gary kasparov, revered as the greatest chess champion of all time. he attempted to run for the russian presidency in 2008 and he's been warning the world about putin's moves for years and he joins me right now welcome to the program. >> thank you. >> in fact, i covered your attempted presidential run back in 2008. i remember you being hauled with some of your supporters into the back of a police van, remind us why as an independent candidate you couldn't officially be a candidate? >> because we should stop misleading people talking about elections, it's more like a ritual to reappoint a dictator his endless rule. putin has to do it, has to pay tribute to russian constitution that he's been violating all the time to russian citizens but most importantly to the rest of the world and even ten years ago, which many of us called vegetarian time because at that time you could spend five or ten days in jail for protesting, today it will be five or ten years. >> you call tha

among them, putin and his inner circle. are you saying putin is corrupt? saying putin created a system for those money to get money from the state. direct criticism of vladimir putin seems dangerous, and many people do not want to know. but sobchak‘s journey to dissidence has been an unusual one. when money gets into my hand, i spend everything on clothes. it's where my budget stays. it's about $3000—$4000 month. in the first decade of this century, as many russians struggled, ksenia sobchak transformed herself from society rich kid to tv celebrity, feeding the masses a diet of reality television and branding herself simply ‘ksenia'. but then the girl with the silver spoon had another transformation. in 2011, shejoined opposition protests and was promptly carted off to a police cell. alexei navalny, the movement's leader, has long been a thorn in the kremlin's side. i was close with him for all those years. we shared many values and we still share many of those values, i hope. but when navalny was banned from standing in this year's elections, and ksenia a

and then we will come to your question i promise after putin. you also have to consider that. the guy they tempted to assassinate is somebody who has been identified as a target for liquidation and that i'm glad to be a putin has himself said that traitors i.e. defectors such as mr script how. should be poisoned so it's. a russian only. agent we finished huge we destroyed our chemical weapons under the supervision of an international watchdog we were the first to do it with our partners also promise to keep their promise with equal exclusion you need to. know we have boris johnson there indicating that he believes the vladimir putin does alter the killing of traitors and defectors as he sees the actual language that he's a part supposed to refuse traitors will kick the bucket he says this doesn't sound like the kind of man that one can reason with christiane so the british government now is investigating a reinvestigated faulty investigating fourteen cases unsolved cases of that russians in london but i think we have to ask why the script a case

affairs putin critic here in around thirty other people with that protesting against vladimir putin becoming the next president as people were finding in to the embassy to vote the newspaper coverage here in the u.k. has been quite interesting in the run up to the election it's certainly conveyed the message that the election of putin is pretty much a foregone conclusion if you have a look at some of the headlines they've got him talking about the russian state mobilizing to ensure a huge win for putin talking about the state voters to the polls and also it's not a big story putin's re-election as president is inevitable it says there are also been other stories now up online as the vote as the polls have closed talking about the pressure that people were on and the fact that the government in russia needed a high turnout in order for this election to be seen as legitimate but really in terms of the run up to the election there weren't many column inches dedicated to the vote itself most of it was talking about the fallout of the the spy story the spy poisoning the case and the perceived thr

the are also standing. indications are that putin has won the indications are that putin has won by a thank steve rosenberg at the kremlin. you. according to results thank you. according to the latest results of vladimir putin has won more than 70% of the vote in the election, not a surprise, many russians support him. but crucially it‘s the political system mr putin put in place in russia that virtually guaranteed he would emerge the winner. it looked more like a show than an election. russian polling stations providing free entertainment to boost the turnout. free entertainment to inside, you could cast a ballot and cast an eye at the art. pride of place here reserved for a legendary russian ruler who had battled the west. for a legendary russian ruler who the current leader is facing international pressure after salisbury. facing international still, vladimir putin was relaxed as he voted. "i believe in the programme i‘m offering my country," the president said. offering my country," the and his supporters agreed. offering my country," the "he‘s a genius," he says. offering my coun

we we re putin are heavily controlled. campaign trail, we found ourselves in a position physically where we were able to pop a question to him, and it was the question that really eve ryo ne it was the question that really everyone wanted to ask at the moment, journalistically, it was the right thing to do. the thing about that putin, like him, hate him, whatever you think of him, he has no trouble answering questions. you have been in russia for 23 years, one wonders how hard it is to report there now, and how it compares to reporting there in the past. one thing we cannot always get into our short two—minute news reports but which is important to say is that if you go outside the bureau here, moscow seems like a normal european city, we don't get the feeling that we are being followed by people in long raincoats with trilby hats(!) and being watched constantly. in that sense, we don't feel greater pressure now. having said that, we have been harassed while covering controversial stories, sensitive stories, and this did n

russian president vladimir putin has declared wednesday a national day of mourning for the sixty four people killed in a shopping center fire on sunday at least forty one children were amongst those who died in the shopping center in the siberian city of kemah over the victims' families held a huge rally on choose day demanding those responsible for what putin called criminal negligence be held to account the fire alarm wasn't system system wasn't working and the exit doors were blocked in mars' parliament is elected a new president with mint is a loyalist to me a mars leader and saying suchi his predecessor tin chore blamed health problems when he resigned a week ago but testers in spain gathered at barcelona's main railway station to demand a former captain on the day. be released from jail in germany riot police blocked the entrance to stop them staging a sit ins in the tracks is currently being held in germany wealth already it will decide whether to extradite him to spain those are the headlines about with more news in half an hour next its inside story to stay with us. u.s. pres

putin clearly he's not keen on a large made putin four point zero the newspaper coverage here in the u.k. has been. it's been very critical of putin it's very much conveyed the message that his reelection was inevitable in the run up to this vote it hasn't taken out many column inches in the sunday papers this is page seven of one of the broadsheets and it's talking about putin's reelection as president being inevitable there's another one here also page seven talking about the russian state mobilizing to ensure a huge win for putin so a lot of articles now talking about there being pressure exerted on the people of russia to vote because vladimir putin putin needed a high turnout in order to ensure legitimacy for this presidency to look legitimate but really most of the papers have been focusing on this you've got something like this may stands up to putin the diplomatic fallout the tensions over the square power poisoning and all the sorts of perceived threats coming from russia as a result you can see caricature up on your screen of the way that vladimir putin has been presented i

putin ban is clearly he's not keen on a large made putin four point zero the newspaper coverage here in the u.k. has been it's been very critical of largely a putin it's very much conveyed the message that his reelection was inevitable in the run up to this vote it hasn't taken out many column inches in the sunday papers this is page seven of one of the broadsheets and it's talking about putin's reelection as president being inevitable there's another one here also page seven talking about the russian state mobilizing to ensure a huge win for putin so a lot of articles now talking about there being pressure exerted on the people of russia to vote because vladimir putin putin needed a high turnout in order to ensure legitimacy for this presidency to look legitimate but really most of the papers have been focusing on this you've got something like this may stand up to putin the diplomatic fallout the tensions over this poisoning and all the sorts of perceived threats coming from russia as a result you can see caricature up on your screen of the way that vladimir putin has been presente

putin and plenty others perceiving that jimmy putin you can see caricature is up on your screen and a very unsavory light and it may have been this focus on the diplomatic standoff this condemnation of russia this very cold war rhetoric in a lot of the papers over the spy poisoning story that may have. galvanized russians here in the u.k. to come out and cost their ballots. across the atlantic the mood in the media and among politicians was similar to in the u.k. the news of securing reelection prompted some senators to fire off will stick comments some takes of the story there are many russians who voted in the u.s. and they expressed concern over the process in the us and we start off with the russian ambassador comments who said that he had hoped that the u.s. would take interest in the various acts of provocation that took place during early voting in the u.s. and he also said that some people even received threats but upon receiving word of president putin's when both the mainstream media and american politicians attempted to deal idjit of mies russia's political process the wash

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our top stories: vladimir putin wins another six yea rs vladimir putin wins another six years as a resident of russia. he's also dismissed britain's claims that russia was behind the poisoning of former spy, sergei skripal. syria's president assad visits soldiers fighting rebels on the frontline in eastern ghouta. and it's a medical breakthrough, say scientists — after stem cell transplants are used to treat multiple sclerosis. vladimir putin has secured another six—year term as russia's president following a landslide election win. he told supporters he saw the result as a vote of confidence in his achievements and in the country. speaking at a news conference he spoke about the ongoing dispute with britain over the poisoning of a russian spy. he insisted that his government had no chemical weapons and had nothing to do with it. these are the latest figures from the russian central election commission. with 98% of the vote now counted, mr putin has won 76.6% — hugely ahead of his nearest rival — the communist party candidate pavel grudinin. he's won just under 12%. the far—right nationalis