Vladimir Putin has secured another six-year term as Russian president.
President Vladimir Putin won a record post-Soviet landslide in Russia's election on Monday, cementing his grip on power though thousands of opponents staged a noon protest at polling stations and the United States said the vote was neither free nor fair. The early result means Putin, 71, will easily secure a new six-year term that would enable him to overtake Josef Stalin and become Russia's longest-serving leader for more than 200 years. Putin won 87.
In an action called "Noon against Putin," Russians who oppose the veteran Kremlin leader went to their local polling station at midday to either spoil their ballot paper in protest or to vote for one of the three candidates standing against Putin, who is widely expected to win by a landslide. Others had vowed to scrawl the name of late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died last month in an Arctic prison , on their ballot paper.
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