Presidential elections were held in Russia from 15 to 17 March 2024. [1] [2] [a] It was the eighth presidential election in the country. The incumbent president Vladimir Putin won with 88% of the vote, the highest percentage in a presidential election in post-Soviet Russia, [4] gaining a fifth term in what was widely viewed as a foregone ...

Mar 19, 2024 · President Vladimir Putin has extended his reign over Russia in a landslide election whose outcome was never in doubt, declaring his determination to advance deeper into Ukraine and dangling new threats against the West.

Voters headed to the polls in Russia on Friday for a three-day presidential election that is all but certain to extend President Vladimir Putin’s rule by six more years. Putin faces no real competition in the vote, after two opposition candidates were barred from running.

Russian presidential elections determine who will serve as the president of Russia for the next six (formerly four from 1996 to 2012 and five from 1991 to 1996) years. [1]

Mar 18, 2024 · Vladimir Putin has almost completely crushed dissent in Russia but on Sunday at noon local time, lines formed at some polling stations in Russia and at embassies around the world, AP reporter Emma Burrows explains.

Legislative elections were held in Russia from 17 to 19 September 2021. At stake were 450 seats in the 8th convocation of the State Duma, the lower house of the Federal Assembly. Going into the elections, United Russia was the ruling party after winning the 2016 elections with 343 of the 450 seats, and retaining a supermajority. [1]

Mar 17, 2024 · President Vladimir V. Putin on Sunday extended his rule over Russia until 2030, using a heavily stage-managed presidential election with no real competition to portray overwhelming public support...

Mar 17, 2024 · Vladimir Putin won a record post-Soviet landslide in Russia's election, cementing his grip on power in a victory he said showed Moscow had been right to stand up to the West and send troops...

Mar 17, 2024 · President Vladimir V. Putin extended his rule over Russia on Sunday, a foregone conclusion after a presidential election that the Kremlin had stripped of any real competition.

Mar 17, 2024 · We are ending our LIve coverage of the Russian presidential election, and President Vladimir Putin's landslide victory. Putin won 87.2% of the vote with all votes counted, data from the...