Initial results show he won with nearly 88% of the vote. Funny that.

The White House has criticized the election saying it's obviously not free nor fair, given how the Russian leader has imprisoned opponents or worse or prevented others from running against him.

Now, he's doing a victory speech of sorts at the moment.

He's been speaking for about 45 minutes so far.

He's taking questions from reporters.

Let's see what he's saying for a short while here.

I hope that this will be a very methodological work, very consistent work over the coming years.

So we will have some selection at the first step and then some further steps, but we will be working in this direction.

OK?

Maybe we will get some final questions.

OK?

I was talking about you, the lady.

The communist leader Zyuganov said that tomorrow they will be meeting with Kharitonov.

Can you confirm this? What would you like to discuss with him and when?

I think tomorrow we have the meetings with all the candidates, presidential candidates.

And if you look at the results, this is what I would like to say.

Alright, we'll leave that there.