04:34Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that his election victory is a 'prologue' to the country's future victories while speaking at a meeting with his colleagues in the Andreyevsky Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace on Wednesday.
"The colleagues who spoke here today, bringing up expectations of victories and congratulating me on winning the election. Election victory is only a prologue to the victories that Russia needs so much, and that are sure to come," the president noted.
Putin stressed the need to work together in all areas to make the country 'even stronger, even more appealing and more efficient'.
"I am very much counting on the fact that together with you we will follow this path of creating and building a new Russia in all its components: in the economy, in defence, in the arts, in domestic politics, in the construction of our state and its state institutions," the Russian leader said.
Putin noted that ensuring the safety of citizens remains a top priority, and there are 'different ways to achieve it'.
"We will certainly work on it. I also spoke about why the enemy is taking such actions. Of course, we could reciprocate, we could respond in the same way: [by attacking] civilian infrastructure and all other facilities of this kind that the enemy is targeting. [However] we have our own approaches to this and we have our own plans. We will proceed according to what we have laid out," the president added.
According to the Kremlin’s press service, the list of Putin's confidants for the presidential election included 544 people, among them political and public figures, representatives of culture, art and science, and athletes.
Russia's presidential election took place over three days on March 15-17, with early voting between February 25 and March 14. Voter turnout was 77.49 per cent, including online voting.
According to the CEC, after processing more than 97 percent of ballots, incumbent President Vladimir Putin was in the lead with 87.3 percent of the vote. Russian Communist Party candidate Nikolai Kharitonov was second with 4.3 percent, and Vladislav Davankov of the New People party and Leonid Slutsky of the LDPR were in third and fourth positions with 3.8 and 3.2 percent, respectively.
'Election victory is only a prologue to the victories that Russia needs so much' - Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that his election victory is a 'prologue' to the country's future victories while speaking at a meeting with his colleagues in the Andreyevsky Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace on Wednesday.
"The colleagues who spoke here today, bringing up expectations of victories and congratulating me on winning the election. Election victory is only a prologue to the victories that Russia needs so much, and that are sure to come," the president noted.
Putin stressed the need to work together in all areas to make the country 'even stronger, even more appealing and more efficient'.
"I am very much counting on the fact that together with you we will follow this path of creating and building a new Russia in all its components: in the economy, in defence, in the arts, in domestic politics, in the construction of our state and its state institutions," the Russian leader said.
Putin noted that ensuring the safety of citizens remains a top priority, and there are 'different ways to achieve it'.
"We will certainly work on it. I also spoke about why the enemy is taking such actions. Of course, we could reciprocate, we could respond in the same way: [by attacking] civilian infrastructure and all other facilities of this kind that the enemy is targeting. [However] we have our own approaches to this and we have our own plans. We will proceed according to what we have laid out," the president added.
According to the Kremlin’s press service, the list of Putin's confidants for the presidential election included 544 people, among them political and public figures, representatives of culture, art and science, and athletes.
Russia's presidential election took place over three days on March 15-17, with early voting between February 25 and March 14. Voter turnout was 77.49 per cent, including online voting.
According to the CEC, after processing more than 97 percent of ballots, incumbent President Vladimir Putin was in the lead with 87.3 percent of the vote. Russian Communist Party candidate Nikolai Kharitonov was second with 4.3 percent, and Vladislav Davankov of the New People party and Leonid Slutsky of the LDPR were in third and fourth positions with 3.8 and 3.2 percent, respectively.
Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that his election victory is a 'prologue' to the country's future victories while speaking at a meeting with his colleagues in the Andreyevsky Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace on Wednesday.
"The colleagues who spoke here today, bringing up expectations of victories and congratulating me on winning the election. Election victory is only a prologue to the victories that Russia needs so much, and that are sure to come," the president noted.
Putin stressed the need to work together in all areas to make the country 'even stronger, even more appealing and more efficient'.
"I am very much counting on the fact that together with you we will follow this path of creating and building a new Russia in all its components: in the economy, in defence, in the arts, in domestic politics, in the construction of our state and its state institutions," the Russian leader said.
Putin noted that ensuring the safety of citizens remains a top priority, and there are 'different ways to achieve it'.
"We will certainly work on it. I also spoke about why the enemy is taking such actions. Of course, we could reciprocate, we could respond in the same way: [by attacking] civilian infrastructure and all other facilities of this kind that the enemy is targeting. [However] we have our own approaches to this and we have our own plans. We will proceed according to what we have laid out," the president added.
According to the Kremlin’s press service, the list of Putin's confidants for the presidential election included 544 people, among them political and public figures, representatives of culture, art and science, and athletes.
Russia's presidential election took place over three days on March 15-17, with early voting between February 25 and March 14. Voter turnout was 77.49 per cent, including online voting.
According to the CEC, after processing more than 97 percent of ballots, incumbent President Vladimir Putin was in the lead with 87.3 percent of the vote. Russian Communist Party candidate Nikolai Kharitonov was second with 4.3 percent, and Vladislav Davankov of the New People party and Leonid Slutsky of the LDPR were in third and fourth positions with 3.8 and 3.2 percent, respectively.