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Russians head for polls to elect new president
Sunday March 04, 2012 10:02:14 AM,
RIA Novosti
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Moscow: Russians started voting Sunday to elect the country's president
for the fifth time in the nation's post-Soviet history, the first
in which the president will serve a six-year term.
Five candidates -- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Communist leader
Gennady Zyuganov, nationalist Liberal Democratic Party head
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, A Just Russia Party leader Sergei Mironov
and the only independent, billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov - vie for
the Russian presidency in Sunday's vote.
Web cameras have been installed at all 96,000 polling stations
with polling booth heads ordered to show every page of their
electoral return to the cameras to guarantee transparency for the
vote.
Voting in the Kamchatka and Magadan regions started at midnight
Saturday/Sunday Moscow time. It will end after residents of
Russia's westernmost Kaliningrad exclave vote at 9.00 p.m. Moscow
time Sunday.
Exit polls' results will be announced after voting is finished,
and the first preliminary official results are expected to be made
public by midnight Sunday/Monday or in the early hours Monday.
Putin, who was Russia's president between 2000 and 2008 and has
been prime minister since then, has led the race. But he may be
forced into a second round if he gets less than 50 percent of the
vote in the first.
The winner in the first round will be inaugurated as president in
early May and President Dmitry Medvedev, a junior member of the
ruling tandem with Putin, will step down.
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