Kharitonov gains 3.8% of the votes in the election after processing 24.4% of the protocols.

Davankov has 3.73%, Slutsky - 2.96%.

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🗳🇷🇺 Latest results of vote counting

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Vladimir Putin wins the presidential election in the

🔺Kherson region with 88.12% of the votes after processing 100% of the protocols

🔺In the Zaporozhye region Putin gains 92.95%

🔺In the Lugansk People's Republic - 94.12%.

🔺in the Donetsk People's Republic - 95.23%

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❗️This is a record result in the history of modern Russia.

In 2018, Putin won 76.69% in the elections, in 2012 - 63.6%, Dmitry Medvedev won in 2008 with a result of 70.28%.

In 2004 and 2000, Putin won with results of 71.31% and 52.9%, respectively.

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More than 30% of ballots have been processed, Putin has won 87.68%

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🇷🇺 Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev: “Congratulations to Vladimir Putin with a brilliant victory in the Russian presidential election!”

Medvedev served as president of Russia from 2008 to 2012.

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Presidential candidate Vladislav Davankov called Putin's victory in the election undoubted.

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Some of the cases in which ballot boxes were deliberately damaged during the vote were broadcast live in Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs said.

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❗️ Putin has been informed on the first election results, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said

🗳🇷🇺 Latest results of vote counting

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Scott Ritter: Putin’s ‘quarter century of dedicated work’ added to reinvigorated Russia

Reinvigorating the Russian nation is one of the key achievements of President Vladimir Putin, who is headed towards a landslide re-election victory.

His victory, according to the analyst, “didn't happen in a vacuum” and was “the byproduct of a quarter century of dedicated work on behalf of Vladimir Putin for Russia and the Russian people,” Ritter stresses.

He recalls the country’s times of trouble in the 1990s, when “the very existence of the Russian state and the Russian nation was being called into question.”

“It was a decade where criminal oligarchs took over and hijacked the Russian economy on behalf of ostensibly Western allies, who weren't true allies, rather people […] who were seeking to dominate Russia politically and economically. This was the decade that Vladimir Putin grew into political prominence,” Ritter said.

“Putin was a product of the 1990s. He saw the reality of the 1990s and he understood that his country could never allow itself to go back to those times. He understood that if Russia didn't break free of the path that it was headed on during the decade of the 90s, there would be no Russia,” the former US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer emphasizes.

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🇷🇺 Foreign Ministry spokeswoman fires back at Germany’s criticism of Russia’s presidential race

"The only thing I can agree with in the German Foreign Ministry's commentary is that there is nothing surprising about the outcome of the Russian election. That's for sure. Especially after NATO repeatedly denigrates our country several times a day, threatening it, fanning the flames of conflict along our borders and throughout the world at large, raising money and weapons to inflict a ‘strategic defeat’ on Russia," she maintained.

"No wonder the whole country united and fought back!" Zakharova concluded.

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🗳🇷🇺 Latest results of vote counting

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🗣 Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of RT and Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik's parent media group, congratulated Russians on the preliminary results of the presidential election

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US blogger Jackson Hinkle announced that he'll be meeting with the winner of the Russian presidential election.

"It's election night in Russia and I'm meeting a winner," he said.

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