Millions of Russians took to the polling booths on Sunday to cast their votes in regional and municipal elections.
Millions of Russians took to the polling booths on Sunday to cast their votes in regional and municipal elections.
The most important race is happening in Moscow, where Acting Mayor Sergei Sobyanin (photo) faces off against Russia’s protest leader Alexei Navalny.
VTsIOM, a state run pollster, said late Sunday that Sobyanin got 53 percent of the vote, while Navalny (photo) received 32 percent.
Ivan Melnikov, the Communist Party’s No. 2 man, goes third with 8 percent of the vote, according to exit polls.
Exit polls revealed that Sergei Mitrokhin, the head of the Yabloko social-democratic party, took some 3 percent of the vote.
Nikolai Levichev, a functionary from the pro-Kremlin A Just Russia...
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... and Mikhail Degtyaryov of the nationalist Liberal-Democratic Party each won only 1 percent of the vote, according to exit polls.
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As of 6 p.m. Moscow time, the turnout at the Moscow elections was 26.46 percent.
Russian President Vladimir Putin casting his vote in the Moscow mayoral elections.
Prime Ministry Dmitry Medvedev and his wife Svetlana heading for their polling station.
Elderly couple before voting in the Moscow mayoral elections.
Soldiers before voting in the gubernatorial elections in the Trans-Baikal Territory.
A fruit stall at a polling station in Chita, eastern Siberia.
Voting in the flooded Khabarovsk Territory.
Anti-drug campaigner Yevgeny Roizman, who is running for mayor of Russia’s fourth-largest city of Yekaterinburg, before casting his vote.
An election commission in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, during the republic's parliamentary elections.
Inmates of a detention center in Chita before voting in the gubernatorial elections.
