With Vladimir Putins opponents in exile, in prison or dead, like outspoken Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny, putins victory is practically certain. If mr putin serves out the full six year term hes likely to win, hell become the longest serving russian leader since catherine the great. Over the next half hour we will look at the impact of the election for those in russia, ukraine and around the world. But first, we start our coverage with this report from our russia editor, Steve Rosenberg in moscow. Russias democracy is the best in the world, the kremlin says. And at Polling Station 38 in moscow, we found a choice of candidates and plenty of voters. Democracy in action, right . Not quite. Realistically, only one man can win this. Vladimir putin the man whos been on russias political stage for the last quarter of a century. Vladimir putin faces no serious challenger. His fiercest rivals are in exile or in prison. Not that this woman, whose son is fighting in ukraine, wants any change a
Part of an overall Unemployment Rate of 5. 3 injuly. All of which has had people taking to social media. Kerry allen works for Bbc Monitoring and has been observing Social Media Activity in china discussing this move. What are people saying in china about this move to stop counting Youth Unemployment . This has been a major Talking Point on social media and state media have reported this is not something young people should worry about and that things are projected to improve from august onwards but on social media a lot of comments that i have seen are very cynical, showing that statistically unemployment has been rising since the beginning of the year, and they are commenting things like, everything is stable, everything is improving, and the idea that if you do not see the data, it is not a problem. Sarcasm is clearly not data, it is not a problem. Sarcasm is clearly not dead data, it is not a problem. Sarcasm is clearly not dead over data, it is not a problem. Sarcasm is clearly no
He said when russians were united, no one could intimidate or suppress them. As our russia editor Steve Rosenberg reports, in a rare move, mr putin also mentioned the Opposition Figure, Alexei Navalny, by name. For Vladimir Putin, six more years in the kremlin. Russias president is sounding more confident than ever. Translation whoever might want to intimidate us, whoever might want to suppress us, our will and our conscience, they have never been able to do it, and never will. Then, mr putins first Public Comments on the death ofjailed Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny. Translation you may be surprised, but a few days before mr navalny died, some colleagues of mine told me there was an idea to exchange him for certain people in prison in the west. You can believe it or not. I said, i agree, even before he had finished talking. But what happened happened. Election results on russian tv, not a hold your breath moment. The winner, by a mile and a half, Vladimir Putin. What an incredible l
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