COUNTRY IS UNITED BEHIND HIM OUR KEIR SIMMONS IS IN
MOSCOW AND QUESTIONED
PUTIN TONIGHT.
>> Reporter: ELECTION
NIGHT IN MOSCOW,
PRESIDENT PUTIN
CELEBRATING A
LANDSLIDE VICTORY
WHICH WAS NEVER IN
DOUBT, AND HIS
CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS
NBC NEWS, THE FIRST
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
ORGANIZATION TO
QUESTION HIM
>> JOURNALIST EVAN
GERSHKOVICH SPENT THIS
ELECTION IN PRISON
BORIS NADEZHDIN WHO
OPPOSES YOUR WAR IN
UKRAINE, WASN’T
ALLOWED TO STAND
AGAINST YOU, AND
ALEXEI NAVALNY DIED IN
ONE OF YOUR PRISONS
DURING YOUR CAMPAIGN
MR. PRESIDENT, IS THIS
WHAT YOU CALL
DEMOCRACY?
>> Reporter: IGNORING
GERSHKOVICH, PUTIN
SAID HE WAS UNPOPULAR
AND NAVALNY DIED
THAT’S LIFE, HE SAID
DAYS BEFORE HIS DEATH
HE AGREED TO EXCHANGE
HIM ON CONDITION HE
NEVER RETURNED
THE SEIZED OPPOSITION
LEADER ALEXEI NAVALNY
BEFORE HIS DEATH LAST
MONTH HAD CALLED FOR
PROTESTS AT POLLING
STATIONS
THESE LINES OF MANY
YOUNG PEOPLE LOOKED
LIKE THE RESPONSE.
AMONG THE 75 PEOPLE
DETAINED WAS A MAN
WEARING A NAVALNY
T-SHIRT.
OTHERS THREW MOLOTOV
COCKTAILS OR POURED
DYE INTO BALLOT BOXES.
NAVALNY’S WIDOW YULIYA
JOINING A PROTEST IN
BERLIN
>> THERE COULD BE NO
NEGOTIATIONS OR
NOTHING WITH MR.
PUTIN BECAUSE HE IS A
KILLER
HE IS A GANGSTER
>> Reporter: ANOTHER
OPPONENT WHO SPOKE OUT
AGAINST THE WAR WASN’T
ALLOWED TO STAND
HE VOTED TODAY WITH
HIS FAMILY, A STARK
CONTRAST TO PUTIN WHO
VOTED ALONE ON A
COMPUTER FRIDAY.
>> OUR ELECTION IS NOT
VERY FAIR, OF COURSE
SOMETIMES WE’LL HAVE
NORMAL DEMOCRATIC,
FREE AND FAIR
ELECTIONS.
>> Reporter: YOU
BELIEVE THAT ONE DAY
>> I BELIEVE, NOT, OF
COURSE ON THIS DAY
>> KEIR JOINS US FROM
MOSCOW WHERE THE PUTIN
PRESS CONFERENCE JUST
WRAPPED UP
AND KEIR, RUSSIA SAYS
THIS IS THE BIGGEST
VOTE FOR PUTIN IN HIS
24 YEARS OF LEADING
THE COUNTRY?
>> Reporter: THAT’S
RIGHT, GADI, AND
RUSSIAN OFFICIALS SAY
THIS IS ALSO THE
LARGEST TURNOUT OF
PRESIDENT PUTIN’S
LEADERSHIP
THERE WILL BE MANY
AROUND THE WORLD WHO