Publish date18 Mar 2018 - 11:38
Story Code : 319064

Russians to vote in 2018 Presidential Election

On March 18, almost 111 million Russian citizens will cast their vote so as to choose the country's president for the next six years.
Russians to vote in 2018 Presidential Election
 
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.

The polling stations will work from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. in every Russian region in accordance with the time zones. The number of eligible voters in Russia equals 108.9 million people as of January 1, 2018, while abroad the number exceeds 1.87 million people.

The results of the vote will be announced March 19.

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