04:26Russian presidential candidate and current head of state Vladimir Putin thanked the country's citizens for their support during the recent election, during a meeting with his campaign team after close of polls in Moscow on Sunday.
"We have many concrete and important tasks ahead of us. [In] the election results, are the trust of the citizens of the country and their hope that we will do everything as planned. I would like to thank all of you and all the citizens of the country for your support and your confidence. Thank you very much," Putin said.
The Russian leader also stated that all those goals and tasks included in his latest address to the Federal Assembly 'will certainly be solved' and 'achieved'.
"Whoever and however much they try to suppress us, our will, our consciousness - no one has ever succeeded in doing that in history. It has not worked now and it will not work in the future. <...> All people, regardless of religious and ethnic affiliation, now feel like one Russian family. This is extremely important," Putin added.
According to the Russia's Central Election Commission, at time of publication, after processing 99.67 percent of ballots, Putin was in the lead with 87.32 percent of the vote.
Russia's presidential election took place over three days on March 15-17, with early voting between February 25 and March 14.
The four candidates were Leonid Slutsky of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), the Communist Party's Nikolai Kharitonov, Vladislav Davankov of the New People Party and incumbent President Putin, running as an independent candidate.
'We are one family' - Putin thanks Russian citizens for support in presidential election
Russian presidential candidate and current head of state Vladimir Putin thanked the country's citizens for their support during the recent election, during a meeting with his campaign team after close of polls in Moscow on Sunday.
"We have many concrete and important tasks ahead of us. [In] the election results, are the trust of the citizens of the country and their hope that we will do everything as planned. I would like to thank all of you and all the citizens of the country for your support and your confidence. Thank you very much," Putin said.
The Russian leader also stated that all those goals and tasks included in his latest address to the Federal Assembly 'will certainly be solved' and 'achieved'.
"Whoever and however much they try to suppress us, our will, our consciousness - no one has ever succeeded in doing that in history. It has not worked now and it will not work in the future. <...> All people, regardless of religious and ethnic affiliation, now feel like one Russian family. This is extremely important," Putin added.
According to the Russia's Central Election Commission, at time of publication, after processing 99.67 percent of ballots, Putin was in the lead with 87.32 percent of the vote.
Russia's presidential election took place over three days on March 15-17, with early voting between February 25 and March 14.
The four candidates were Leonid Slutsky of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), the Communist Party's Nikolai Kharitonov, Vladislav Davankov of the New People Party and incumbent President Putin, running as an independent candidate.
Russian presidential candidate and current head of state Vladimir Putin thanked the country's citizens for their support during the recent election, during a meeting with his campaign team after close of polls in Moscow on Sunday.
"We have many concrete and important tasks ahead of us. [In] the election results, are the trust of the citizens of the country and their hope that we will do everything as planned. I would like to thank all of you and all the citizens of the country for your support and your confidence. Thank you very much," Putin said.
The Russian leader also stated that all those goals and tasks included in his latest address to the Federal Assembly 'will certainly be solved' and 'achieved'.
"Whoever and however much they try to suppress us, our will, our consciousness - no one has ever succeeded in doing that in history. It has not worked now and it will not work in the future. <...> All people, regardless of religious and ethnic affiliation, now feel like one Russian family. This is extremely important," Putin added.
According to the Russia's Central Election Commission, at time of publication, after processing 99.67 percent of ballots, Putin was in the lead with 87.32 percent of the vote.
Russia's presidential election took place over three days on March 15-17, with early voting between February 25 and March 14.
The four candidates were Leonid Slutsky of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), the Communist Party's Nikolai Kharitonov, Vladislav Davankov of the New People Party and incumbent President Putin, running as an independent candidate.