2018 RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

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2018 RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

22:49 17.03.2018(updated 11:19 18.03.2018)Get short URL

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This Sunday, almost 111 million Russian citizens vote for the country's next president, while the results of the vote will be announced tomorrow.

Russian nationals are electing the country's head of state among eight contenders: Sergei Baburin from the All-People's Union party; Communist Party candidate Pavel Grudinin; incumbent Russian President Vladimir Putin; Civil Initiative party candidate Ksenia Sobchak; Communists of Russia party chairman Maxim Suraykin; Presidential Commissioner for Entrepreneurs' Rights Boris Titov; co-founder of the Yabloko party Grigory Yavlinsky, and head of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

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