Vladimir Putin secured some 63.7 % of vote in Russia’s presidential election. The head of Central Election Commission declared him the next president Russia, while opposition movement repeatedly rallies tens of thousands of protesters.

Moscow / NationalTurk – Vladimir Putin, set to win a third presidential term after Russian elections, announced his victory and thanked his voters -every 2 Russians of 3- for their support. Polling at almost 64 % with almost all of the votes counted, victory was Putin’s whom the Russians regard like he is the heart and soul of Russia, the great leader who comes once or twice in a century.

Putin : Elections turned into landslide victory in Russia

The landslide victory of Vladimir Putin saw Gennady Zyuganov scoring 17.2 % of the votes. In third place was political newcomer Mikhail Prokhorov, who won 7.9 %. Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Sergey Mironov won 6.2 and 3.9 % of the vote respectively.

Exit polls showed results similar to the CEC’s intermediate data. According to a Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) survey, about 58.3 % of Russians cast their votes for Vladimir Putin, while Gennady Zyuganov got the support of 17.7 % of the country’s voters.Mikhail Prokhorov, Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Sergey Mironov won 9.2, 8.5 and 4.8 % of the votes respectively. Around 1.5 % of the respondents said they had trashed their ballots.

Putin for USSR ? Russian leader gained the trust of every 2 Russians out of 3

Vladimir Putin and outgoing Russian president Dmitry Medvedev came out to address thousands of people gathered at Manezhnaya Square. Putin thanked his supporters, telling them, ‘ we have won in an open and fair struggle.’

Russian election authorities meanwhile continue counting the last 0.5 % unaccounted ballots under observer supervision.

According to the preliminary data from Russia’s Central Election Commission, over 63.3 % of registered voters went to the polling stations Sunday. The figure is lower than during the previous presidential election, in 2008, but higher than during the parliamentary election in 2011.

Russia Elections : Is Putin’s victory clean and fair ?

‘ We have gained a clean victory! ‘ he said, standing next to Dmitri A. Medvedev, the protégé he chose to succeed him as president just over 4 years ago, and who now, in a job swap, has been promised the post of prime minister. ‘ We won!’ a victorious Putin said. “Glory to Russia!”

Russia Elections : Putin Opposition to demonstrate

Amid renewed allegations of voting fraud, some opposition leaders called for demonstrations beyond those allowed by government permits, raising the prospect of a sharp response from the authorities and threatening to undercut Putin’s promise of stability.

Observers reported a number of violations during the vote across the country. Results at one polling station in Dagestan, in the North Caucasus, will be annulled due to a video recorded by one of the webcams. It showed several people casting multiple ballots. Vladimir Putin’s campaign headquarters says it will demand the cancelation of results at every polling station where such serious violations are revealed.

Russians have demonstrated an unprecedented level of political engagement leading up to the vote. Hundreds of thousands of independent vote observers were spread nationwide, and every ballot box was under the watchful eye of live webcams.

The overall organization of the Russian election process and the monitoring system has received positive feedback from the majority of Russian and international independent observers.

A December Russian parliamentary vote leading to a number of mass protests across Russia. The authorities tried to satisfy Russians call for fair elections and made the vote as transparent as possible.

Voting opened at 12 pm Moscow time in Russia’s most eastern areas, including Chukotka, Magadan, and Kamchatka, and ended at 9 pm in the western Kaliningrad region.

Opponents of Vladimir Putin are planning to stage a mass protest in Moscow after his disputed victory in the country’s presidential election.

Opposition : Putin Elections Victory not without fraud in Russia

They have accused the authorities of widespread fraud and claim many people were allowed to cast multiple votes.

The alleged fraud came despite the presence of thousands of independent observers and webcams at polling stations, but Vladimir Putin’s campaign chief Stanislav Govorukhin dismissed the allegations : ‘ This is the cleanest election in Russia’s entire history, be clever !’

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