ago now as he did in previous elections he went to the polling station up the capital's russian academy of sciences the result he would consider a success and guess what he responded any cell that was in miami to take office and he left soon after citing a couple of appointments he hands this process going to be a busy day for all those that counter that before he left that was a bit of a misunderstanding should we say of the polling station with the polling station chief. and wanted to get back the plan that he was handed in order to mark his chosen candidate however the official refused adding i've got my own i just want. some of the votes have been quite out of this world we've been talking in previous hours about the difficulty of conducting an election when there's so much remote to write in you don't get much more remote than being in orbit russian cosmonauts of the space station got the chance to cast their ballot for president having selected a person on this planet for their vote thankfully we also got a glimpse of the many ethnic groups across russia some taking a lighter approach to cast

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ago here in moscow as in previous elections he went to the polling station the capital's russian academy of sciences asked what result he would consider a success which in responded and the results that would allow me to take office the journalist though didn't have a chance to fire too many questions at him as putin left soon after citing. a couple of appointments he cuts into let's show you some live video now from the capital's polling stations where voting speak taking place for a couple of hours now as we mentioned a little bit earlier on on any a busy day for the candidates six of them of course that. awaiting what happens come nine pm tonight. from the election we spoke to from all walks of life because we've been very hot about what they hope pull ahead of election day. joining us on this sunday here with the international suddenly a busy day action packed for election day across the country in the world will continue our live coverage on red square very soon this is all t. international. the most expensive fish in the world each one is selling for tens of thousands of euros it continues to

ago now in moscow in previous elections he went to the polling station to the capital's russian academy of sciences asked what result he would consider a success responded any result to take office the journalist though didn't have the chance to fire too many questions at him as putin left soon after a couple of appointments. with much of the size of his country so what a difficult task it is in order to be able to get these votes counted for more than one hundred million people eligible to vote this year for seven million of them it's going to be the first time voting as well as they turn out before the election we spoke with workers and voters from all walks of life. ahead of election day. you know. this is the more your. news i'm sure. you could be at a board meeting which of course or most korea. i know which are so good attitudes i mean you go in a group that's one more work but you're a professional with them so i'd watch out the. person there which still perhaps that i'm in the exclusion more. immediate of there was more such quality near coercion to get us in there. just go to school your n

and, the person who heads the peace and conference studies unit at the russian academy of sciences in moscow. written the book several times on terrorism and how to counter it. , one of the most cogent explainers of these topics that i know. we unfortunately lost chemical reagan, who was supposed to join at this panel. she was called away unexpectedly and is very sorry not to be here. i would like to give a few words to the director of the east-west institute's moscow office. just held a series of the unitedns about states, russia, terrorism, and afghanistan. reason we are- lucky enough to have this person here with us. i would like him to have the opportunity to say a little bit about his project and their work before we get started. >> thank you. yes. good morning. .ust wanted to add again, our colleagues from russia are coming here in the whichork of the program is from are you new york and moscow offices to go to u.s.-russia relations. as membersming here members off russian the working group of counterterrorism in afghanistan. it's a joint working group, which was established her

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our viewers, if we can pull up this image of the russian president vladimir putin himself we understand reportedly voting at the russian academy of sn sciencesbut we see him casting his vote, the question who do you think he's voting for there. let's bring in jill following the story as well. eight candidates to choose from but there's also opposition not allowed to run and their message to voters, stay away from the polls. talk to us about why voter turnout will be such an important indicator in this election. >> reporter: well, you know, george, that really is the key thing, because after all, there really is no viable alternative realistically. and everybody knows that vladimir putin can win. so what do you if you're a voter and what do you do if you're the kremlin? you want a large turnout. kremlin wants a large turnout which gives the stamp of approval by voters. it's very interesting to watch vladimir putin. you know, as he voted r , he ca over to reporters, they asked him a couple questions and said what do i want? any results that would allow me to take office. vladimir putin doesn't really describe, you know, a platform in great det