Putin won Russia's presidential election with a record 87.97 percent of the vote

 

Putin won Russia's presidential election with a record 87.97 percent of the vote

 

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin has won the Russian presidential election by getting a record 87.97 percent of the votes, according to preliminary results.

According to the report of the news agency Reuters, Vladimir Putin has won with 87.97% of the votes, according to the preliminary results obtained after the completion of the 3-day polling process of the Russian presidential election.

Putin, 71, a former KGB lieutenant colonel, won 87.97 percent of the vote, the best result in Russia's post-Soviet history, according to FOM.

Election officials said the turnout for the presidential election in Russia was 74.22 percent compared to 67.5 percent in 2018. There are 11.4 million registered voters in Russia, including four regions of Ukraine.

 

Vladimir Putin has ruled Russia as prime minister or president since 1999 and will have another six years at the helm of the world's largest nuclear power, surpassing Joseph Stalin as the longest-serving president in the country's 200-year history. Will become leaders who will rule for a long time.