Said , in an interview with Dmitry Kiselev , an ordinary 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 political consolidation. Came in order to create conditions for development of strengthening the russian homeland. Achieve those goals that we consider absolutely priority. Thank you. Please, first of all, congratulations to you, alexander egramchannel shot. And on may 7, after the inauguration , according to the law, the government, your Administration Must resign. Will you wait these few months, or maybe you will form your own team in the coming days and will you greatly change the cabinet of ministers and your administration . Thank you, you know, the results of work over the past couple of years have shown that, in general, the Administrative Team is broadly in the sense of the word, it 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 president ial administration, the question is now to determine who is in what place. Will work most effectively and so that the overall result, teamwork is maximum, i, together with colleagues from the government, with the administration, together with the leadership of the central bank, this is also a significant part, a significant part Management Team that works on issues of macroeconomic stability, we will think about everything calmly together. In a working, comradely manner, we will make these decisions, there is no need to fuss, the law gives such an opportunity to resolve these issues within one and a half, up to 2 and a half months, and we will do so. Their homeland with weapons in their hands, than they are vlasovites, well, they also fought against the end, 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 neonazis, the neonazi 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, nevertheless there are such people, there are several groups of them, there 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 thrown into assaults like meat, meat assaults, this exactly, in this case. They took up arms in their hands against their country, against their homeland. We do not have the death penalty, but we will always treat these people, now in the future, as those who are in a combat zone. Lets assume that they are armed. All Law Enforcement agencies will be given instructions, by name. Identify everyone 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 the commanders tell me that its immediately obvious that this is an irregular unit, they come in a crowd and, well, it s simple. It is impossible to intimidate our people, there are just turnouts in New Territories in the border areas, the turnout is even higher than in the country as a whole, this is simply a response from these people to actions related to an attempt to intimidate them, its just that those who do this do not understand who they are dealing with, but partly it may be good that they dont understand, because in this case. They will certainly be defeated, now they are trying again in this uh, in at the moment they are also trying to climb somewhere there, to go somewhere, they were destroyed, almost 100 destruction was of those who climbed there to some 100 m on our territory, 25 tanks were destroyed during this time, in general on the border zone, the enemy concentrated a group of up to 5,000 people, not directly on the state border line, but somewhere in their immediate rear, but overall the loss was about 40 , of which approximately 35 were irrecoverable, 25 tanks, there were dozens of Armored Vehicles and so on, well, if they like it that way, then in principle its us its fine, because they attack thoughtlessly , its such a meat grinder for them, well, its even beneficial for us, let. Let them try, which means there will be fewer personnel with whom they will have to participate in hostilities in other sections of the contact line , the initiative belongs entirely to the Russian Armed forces, in some areas our guys are now simply shredding their enemys advance every day , gradually, carefully, but every day, this is a little more than active defense, well, we all see it that way, in anyway these are the people you said about, they have an unenviable fate, we guarantee that to them, lets conclude. Vladimirov vladimirovich, how do you assess the current state of development of chineserussian relations, in your opinion, what will russias relations with china be like in the future, for example, well, for your new term, thank you, but look, now a very important event took place in china, yes , the National Peoples congress , china is developing by leaps and bounds, at a fast pace, very confidently. What is very important is the structure chinas economy is changing towards innovation towards giving the economy a more innovative character, and we are trying to do the same within the country, we are faced with exactly the same tasks in russia, and first, second, the peoples republic of china is very active. Is achieving very Great Success in the international arena, she has a lot of friends all over the world, and the attempts that are being made by the underworld of china, i mean, first of all, this is connected with 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 against china in order to maintain. Friendly relations with the chairman of the peoples republic of china, this, of course, is not the most important thing, the most important coincidence of state interests, but this sets a very good tone for the overall solution. Tasks in the field of international relations, where relations between russia and china are such a stabilizing factor in terms of the development of our activity in the eurasian space, and china is implementing its plan along this silk road, one train, one track, the chairmans initiative is very important, in my opinion, there are a lot of coinciding points of interest in the economic sphere, in the Foreign Policy sphere, im sure we will 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 peoples. Yes, andrey, please, now, please, give it to the wheelwright, wheelwright, if in the middle, in the middle of the wheelwright, yes, here, here, yeah, please 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, together with the russian people , to achieve these goals. Please, a. Hello tas news agency. Macron recently said he would ask russia for a ceasefire in ukraine. Macron. Recently stated that he would ask russia to stop fire in ukraine during the olympics in paris in the summer. Is russia ready to consider this proposal, under what conditions, will it depend on the participation or nonparticipation of our athletes in the olympics . Thank you. I dont know about this statement by the french president. We are ready to consider. Questions, but in any situation we will always proceed from the interests of the Russian Federation, and the situation in the zone of combat contact, of course, you know, i said all the time, i will repeat it again, we are for peaceful negotiations, but not because the enemy has ammunition end, but after if they are really serious and want to build it in the long term. Peaceful, 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 are distorting the whole meaning of the olympic movement, olympism, they are undermining the very foundations of international sports, this separate topic, please, yes, take it, yes, give it, but whatever. Excuse a question in english, my colleague will uh translate kier simons from nbc news um mr. President , journalist evan gorskovic spent this election in prison, boris nadierstin who opposes your war in ukraine wasnt 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 . Mr. President of the American Television company nbc cyrus simons, my question american journalist evan gershkovich, among many who held elections in prison, boris nadezhdin, who opposes the war, was not allowed to participate in elections, and Alexei Navalny died in one of the prisons during your election campaign, is this democracy, in your opinion . This is life, which means that if mr. Nadezhdin did not take part in. In this election campaign, then this is primarily the result of his, well, unsatisfactory, unsatisfactory work in preparation for these elections, it was probably necessary to work more actively with his supporters, not to make mistakes, not to allow falsification of those elected on these ballots, and so on, theres a question in my look, as i know, i dont know this for sure, but in my opinion this is exactly the point, that the required number of votes was not collected to participate in the vote. Thats all, that means this is the 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 perhaps in the United States this has never happened, it has happened more than once, uh, by the way, uh, well, ill tell you, it will be so unexpected, uh, a few days before mr. Navalnys departure , some colleagues told me about his life and not not members of the administration, some people there said that there is. An idea to exchange mr. Navalny for some people who are in prison in western countries, you can tell me believe it or not, the person who spoke to me had not yet finished his sentence, and i said, i agree, but unfortunately, what happened happened, only on one condition that we change him so that he does not return, let him sit there, thats all, but. Candidates for president of the United States we have no preference for anyone from america, we will work with whoever the voters trust, but the use of administrative resources of the judicial system, well, its just become ridiculous a disgrace to the whole world for the United States and for your socalled democratic. System, i have every reason to believe that there is no democracy, at least during the election processes in some western countries, including the United States, today we are not watching, so accept the answer, yes, please, please, yes, now we will still move to you, hello, vladimir vladimirovich, congratulations on your victory in information. Over the past few months, you have met a lot with people , you have repeatedly noted that russian women can do a lot, even our girls have become military pilots, please tell me, in our governors corps for the last five years, there is probably only one woman, are there any lists on the list . Candidates for the post of governors, women and can this happen . In the states, voting by mail, no , you started to smile, and this matters, well , voting by mail, what is it, here is a person, today we, 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 the day that has not yet ended, then we had a number, a large number of observers, including. And what is it like to vote by mail . In the usa no, but of course we are improving our system. After the collapse of the soviet union, it was very large in my opinion, it lies in the fact that the number of specialists on the soviet union remained who could do nothing more than how to fight the soviet union, and then the emerging parts of the territory of russia, so they began to convince their political leadership, the public of their countries, that they need to continue to finish off russia, and in such a way that they themselves. In what positions do you want to see such people right now, who do you want . Already needed in your team now in the twentyfourth year, please allow me one more clarification in the development of the issues of the belgorod region, completely barbaric attacks of the ukrainian regime and many died, well, people died, and many were injured, a year ago the governor golodkov, 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 the kharkov region, what do you think about this now . Im not ready to talk now about what and how we should annex and when, but i do not rule out that, given the tragic events taking place today, we will be forced at some point, when we consider it appropriate, to create a certain sanitary zone on today territories subordinate to the kiev regime, means creating security zone, to overcome, which. Will be quite difficult, using the weapons that the enemy uses, primarily, of course, foreign made, which again, what depth such a zone could have, is a separate question, but formation, that is, of the future management complex, corps , you know, because. When i said about this project the time of heroes, i repeat again, this is for me, im not exaggerating, i wont come up with anything, it came to mind right when i met with the guys, members of the special military operations in st. Petersburg, they are all people with Higher Education from among students or graduates of universities, and of course a simple idea came to my mind, which i then tried to formulate and try to organize now, so that from these number of these guys who do not spare themselves in the interests of homeland, they are at war, they suffer losses, they are injured in the literal sense of the word, and then the service is hard, you understand, well, now its slushy, muddy, its snowing, they re sitting there in the trenches, well, do we understand what this is . That it will be calm, methodical, serious work planned for years to come, we have already received over 30,000 applications, of course, the first step will be several dozen, selection must take place, then the next steps, the next we will expand this work, but we will definitely move in this direction, so, lets finish, here you go, yes, well, okay, i meant a young man, but let the girl speak. And today the leader of the communist party of the Russian FederationGennady Zyuganov said that tomorrow your meeting with Nikolai Kharitonov is planned, can you confirm this meeting, if so, what would you like to talk to him about when you want to meet with the other two opponents, so tomorrow, in my opinion, such a meeting is planned with all of the president ial candidates, by the way, if we look at the results , then i would like to say this about the communist party of the Russian Federation about the ldpr, well, about the new party, new people, thats what concerns the party, new people, i dont know what the final result will be, but its really always attractive for citizens, its attractive, somehow intrusive, everyone is always waiting, people are waiting for some changes, transformations, so the result that was achieved, especially since these are people. I know the leaders of this party well, first of all, their attention is focused on creating favorable conditions for business development, well, in his election speeches, mr. Davankov, well, all his colleagues, i dont know what and how they formulated, but in general the idea of ​​their meaning of their activities primarily lies in in order to. Create conditions for better conditions for entrepreneurial activity, this is good, because the development of the economy ultimately depends on the work of this class, the business class; as we know, the entire basis for achieving National Goals is built on it, this is noble, a very correct task, as for the communist party of the Russian Federation or the liberal democratic party, we all understand that their electorate is, well, it is, first of all , patriotic. The electorate, as we call it, in todays conditions, a significant part of their traditional electorate , i think, still gave preference to the current head of state, bearing in mind the difficult situation in which we all find ourselves, which , of course, also influenced the final results, and i give myself great credit, i give myself this is the report, but this does not mean that. Their electoral base has really somehow been seriously reduced, i think not, i think that in general everything, in our ordinary, ordinary internal political life, everything will remain approximately the same as like, well, lets do it finish already, please, i ask you, oh , you talked about the unprecedentedly large turnout in new regions, what this is connected with, but you didnt say whether you were surprised, there is a very large percentage of those who voted for you, up to 100 , the numbers are approaching 100 , were you surprised by this result, did you expect it to be exactly like this, precisely in the new regions, because there, well, people just recently became our citizens, this is the first and second, and. Now they are being distributed statements in the west that our elections are illegitimate, not free, and in general bad, in principle im still worried about what the western elites, western leaders are saying. Support, thank you, yes, if we still have foreign journalists, we uh, to show our our spirit of a democratic character, im ready, well, you are the only one, you turned out to be brave, you came here, uh, thank you for being here, despite to your critical attitude, after all, you listen to my answer, which is probably not very pleasant, but you also tried to ask me some tricky questions, but nevertheless, you are here. Perhaps as likely as possible, thank you, well i i think that everything is possible in the modern world , but i have already said, and this is clear to everyone, that this will be one step away from a fullscale third world war, i think that hardly anyone is interested in this, as for the position of the president of france, then there are already some amendments in the sense that this contingent will carry out these. Secondary functions, will have to be involved in training military personnel in ukraine, explaining how to use western equipment, and some other functions this kind of thing, well, today its not much different from what mercenaries do, and then armed forces that means military personnel from nato countries are present there, we know, we hear french speech there. So that france would not play such a role that leads to aggravation of the conflict, to its aggravation, would not provoke this situation, on the contrary, this is how it was here. It was said, i did not hear this, but nevertheless, we are talking about possible possible ways of peaceful settlement, in this sense it seems to me france could play its role, not everything is lost yet, but still, i would like to finish with words of gratitude to the russian people, russian voters, i want to emphasize once again that we will do everything that depends on us to achieve the goals of National Development in. All directions, thank you all the best, goodbye, this was a press conference of Vladimir Putin at the election headquarters in gostiny dvor, the first after the end of the elections, before that the president addressed his comrades who had gathered at the headquarters, but in fact to all citizens of russia and thanked everyone for participating in the elections and made a number of important policy statements. Vladimir putin will meet with the cochairs of the headquarters in the near future. We are reading to show you these frames live, but for now the latest data from the Central Election Commission preliminary results of the president ial election, 78 of the protocols of precinct election commissions have already been processed, by this moment the data is 87. 14 for Vladimir Putin. Maryana anatolyevna, how are you feeling . Good evening, hello, how are you feeling . Maryana. Nothing, everything, everything is in order , the last trip to barnaul, apparently, turned out to be too unsafe, there are many medical institutions, everything, we communicated directly with people, after all well no one has canceled the cold yet, and yes, we will overcome everything, definitely, absolutely, influenza, please correct me, marya anatolyevna, thank you. Yes, here i am appealing to everyone, to artyom vladimirovich, to vladimir levovich, to maryana anatolyevna, i want to thank you for the work that was done, i saw everything that was happening, i saw your trips, meetings with people, conversations, and i want to say that when i watched, i thought how great, how good it is that these are the people who head the headquarters directly with. Uh, talking to people thats because everything you what they said and did was highly convincing, it was honest, from the heart, and it seems to me that this, to a large extent , did not endear you to the people with whom you spoke, well, in general , it brought a positive, positive result to. Our common work, so thank you very much, we, as i said at the meeting with with the headquarters, with the volunteers, we have done a lot of work over the previous few months, but without any doubt, the main task now is not to fix the election results, on the contrary, on the basis of. That result, to move forward, doing everything , which we talked about during the election campaign, so from the very beginning, from the very beginning of my activities in this capacity, i thought about this all the time, you know, in general, when i was wondering whether i should do this, you know, i was always wondering held back, i proceeded from the fact that it is necessary at such moments to promise, promise, promise, and then it is not clear what to do with it, with these promises, so i once decided for myself that i would not promise anything that which is impossible to do, but you must always be extremely honest with people, not engage in verbiage and not deceive people in your expectations, thats all i said in the. In the message to the federal assembly, but in essence this message was like preelection, essentially preelection plan, work for the future, i said what had been worked out for several months, at the level of experts, the government, the central bank, the administration, this is all feasible, everything is calculated, but when you. Each of you said on your own what you think is necessary, and you people are far from politics, you are just people who have been doing their own thing all their lives. Result of the elections, this is what i would like to say at the beginning, and of course, it would be useful to listen to your impression of the work that you have done, perhaps during these direct contacts, during which maryana anatolyevna brought home the influenza, so, but it doesnt matter, it will pass for sure, especially since maryana anatolyevna herself is a wonderful doctor, well, maybe. Indicative of how citizens and these last 3 days have been incredibly worried about russias fate homeland, and clearly understands that now and today there was a historical choice, a choice of the future, it was during our trips. Its clear, i thank you for the honor and trust to be on your team, and i think that my friends are the cochairs of the headquarters will share with me we visited these feelings and thoughts dozens of cities, met thousands of people with different people in different, different circumstances, as we say. Theater, but you know, here i am, you just recently said, it made an impression on me , you said that your life is like a waterfall, the number of events, unexpected turns, it is huge, but i want to tell you that in this waterfall. There is a huge flow of love, trust, gratitude from citizens that you should feel, these meetings were so sincere, you know, at the same time i also went to the art school in sevastopol, beautiful, incredible, met with teachers, with children, here they are. All the children say hello to vladimir vladimirovich, we love him so much, of course, this came up from