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Putin likely to get landslide win in presidential poll
Moscow, Mar 13: Various public opinion surveys have predicted a landslide victory for incumbent President Vladimir Putin in the elections to the top Kremlin post to be held tomorrow.
Moscow, Mar 13: Various public opinion surveys have predicted a landslide victory for incumbent President Vladimir Putin in the elections to the top Kremlin post to be held tomorrow.
According to the surveys, Putin is set to garner up to 85 per cent of the votes in the absence of serious challengers.
As campaign came to a close midnight, the government further strengthened security at sensitive points, including nuke installations, railway stations, metro stations, airports, seaports and riverports across the country, by deploying special security units. Russian security forces are taking extra measures in view of the recent terrorist attacks in Madrid although the head of Russian Interior Ministry's main Transport Police Department General Vyacheslav Zakharenkov denied that security measures were related to the terrorist train bombings in Spain.
Putin has five opponents in the presidential race, which the Russian media has described as the most lacklustre in the country. They include economist and ex-Communist Sergei Glazyev, Communist-backed Nikolai Khatitonov, Oleg Malyshkin of Zhirinovsky's Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR), the Federation Council chairman Sergei Mironov and Irina Khakamada, the only female candidate, who is not supported by her party Union of Right Forces (SPs).
A sixth candidate, Ivan Rybkin, dropped out of the race on March 5, accusing the Kremlin of staging a ''farce'' in the name of elections.
According to polls, the five contenders for the presidential race may not even get 12-15 per cent of the votes.
Bureau Report
As campaign came to a close midnight, the government further strengthened security at sensitive points, including nuke installations, railway stations, metro stations, airports, seaports and riverports across the country, by deploying special security units. Russian security forces are taking extra measures in view of the recent terrorist attacks in Madrid although the head of Russian Interior Ministry's main Transport Police Department General Vyacheslav Zakharenkov denied that security measures were related to the terrorist train bombings in Spain.
Putin has five opponents in the presidential race, which the Russian media has described as the most lacklustre in the country. They include economist and ex-Communist Sergei Glazyev, Communist-backed Nikolai Khatitonov, Oleg Malyshkin of Zhirinovsky's Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR), the Federation Council chairman Sergei Mironov and Irina Khakamada, the only female candidate, who is not supported by her party Union of Right Forces (SPs).
A sixth candidate, Ivan Rybkin, dropped out of the race on March 5, accusing the Kremlin of staging a ''farce'' in the name of elections.
According to polls, the five contenders for the presidential race may not even get 12-15 per cent of the votes.
Bureau Report