Russian president Vladimir Putin was expected to have won re-election by a landslide last night, in a vote which the Kremlin sought to portray as a celebration of democracy but which was marred by irregularities.
Mr Putin won with 73.9 per cent of the vote, according to an exit poll published by the Public Opinion Research Centre (VCIOM), one of the country’s two main Kremlin-backed pollsters.
Mr Putin’s apparent victory, widely expected as his increasingly authoritarian regime has neutralised opposition to his rule, puts him on course to rule Russia longer than anyone since Soviet-era dictator Josef Stalin.
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