In Moscow, Russian leader Vladimir Putin claimed a landslide victory in the presidential elections held over the weekend. For him, that means another six years in the Kremlin. According to the Russian election commission, Putin won 87% of the vote, but most Western countries have said that the elections were neither free nor fair. Host Marco Werman speaks with The World’s Daniel Ofman, who covered the elections from Riga, Latvia.
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