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The Russian voting ended in the Russian election. According to the results of the counting of 38.4 percent of the ballots, the candidate from United Russia Dmitry Medvedev is gaining 67.14 percent of voters, reports the Central Election Commission.

The Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov is gaining 18.8 percent, LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky - 11.33, self -nominated Andrei Bogdanov - 1.33 percent of the vote.

The turnout of the voters, according to the data at 19.00 Moscow time, amounted to 64.22 percent in the country in the whole country.

The current President of Russia Vladimir Putin congratulated Medvedev, other candidates and citizens of Russia. "The presidential election took place! Our candidate Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev is confidently leading!" - He said at a concert on Red Square, where he came with Medvedev.

"I thank you, all Russian citizens who came to the polling stations today. This suggests that we live in a democratic state, and our civil society is becoming strong, active, effective, responsible," Putin said.

“Congratulations to Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev and wish him success,” the president said. “But such a victory obliges a lot, it will be guaranteed that the course, the successful course that we chose, will continue the course of the last eight years.”

Zhirinovsky, who previously expressed the intention to challenge the results of the elections in court, abandoned this idea. “I am dissatisfied with the results, but I understand that it is useless to dispute them,” Zhirinovsky explained on the air of Echo of Moscow.

“I don’t like my numbers, I’m sure that there were more violations for me,” he said. Zhirinovsky added that he intends to subsequently participate in the presidential election, as well as "in the elections to the State Duma, in the regional and municipal elections."