The current President of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev, who is preparing to leave his post, voted in the presidential elections. Together with his wife Svetlana, the Russian leader arrived at polling station No. 2634, located at school No. 1118 on Dovzhenko Street in the Western Administrative District of Moscow, at about 11:00 Moscow time.

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This is where the country's president and first lady have voted for the past few years. After greeting those present, Dmitry Medvedev and his wife left their signatures in the voter registration register. Taking two ballots - for the presidential elections and municipal elections - the head of state entered the booth, made marks on the ballots and went to the electronic ballot box.

The electronic machine did not accept the first ballot the first time, but a little later both of its ballots were accepted and processed. Following D. Medvedev, his wife voted. During the presidential vote, voters' access to the polling station was not stopped or limited, reports Echo of Moscow.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin also cast his vote in the Russian presidential elections. The capital's mayor arrived at polling station No. 98 on Nikolaev Street in the center of Moscow. Having greeted everyone at the polling station and presented his passport to a member of the precinct election commission, he received two ballot papers, since in addition to voting for the candidacy of the President of the Russian Federation, Muscovites today simultaneously elect deputies to the assembly of intra-city municipalities. Having made his choice, S. Sobyanin put the ballots into a transparent ballot box.

In addition, one of the presidential candidates, the chairman of the LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky , the head of the Central Election Commission Vladimir Churov and the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill have already voted in the presidential elections. V. Zhirinovsky voted at a polling station in the Ochakovo-Matveevskoye district. He arrived at the station surrounded by his comrades, without family members.

V. Churov voted in the village of Gorki, Mozhaisk district, Moscow region. At the same time, the head of the Central Election Commission arrived at the polling station at 07:45 Moscow time, watched how the election commission was preparing for the opening, and was the first to place the ballot in the ballot box.

The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church voted today at his working residence in Chisty Lane in Moscow.

D. Medvedev voted in the Russian presidential elections