
In the presidential election on March 18, Vladimir Putin scored 76.67 percent of the vote. According to RBC, these are the data published by the CEC according to the results of processing 99.84 percent of the ballots.
The second place was taken by the Ph.D. Pavel Grudinin with 11.79 percent of the vote. The leader of the LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky scored, according to the CIK, 5.66 percent of the vote, TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak - 1.67 percent, apple co -founder Grigory Yavlinsky - 1.04 percent, business ombudsman Boris Titov - 0.76 percent, chairman of the "Communists of Russia" Maxim Suraikin - 0.68 percent, candidate from Russian National Union Sergey Baburin - 0.65 percent.
The turnout of the voters, according to the Central Election Commission, amounted to 67.43 percent.
At the same time, Vedomosti is noted with reference to the data of the CEC that the number of voters in Russia has grown by nearly by 1.5 million people during the night. If on the eve of the Commission Chairman Ella Pamfilova stated that as of 9 a.m. on March 18, in Russia, the number of registered voters was 107.23 million, then in the voting protocol published by the CIM exactly a day later, at 9 am Monday, 108.727 million of voters are listed.
According to the results of the 2012 elections, Putin was declared the winner from 63.71 percent of the vote. Thus, the current result attributed to him is almost 13 percent higher.
During the vote on Sunday , gross violations were everywhere recorded . So, in Krasnodar, on dozens of observers from the headquarters of Alexei Navalny, they did not allow voting to control: at the time of their arrival, the places were occupied by people "with the same status from the same candidate." “These are false observers, the directions of which no one issued,” the headquarters noted.
In Komsomolsk-on-Amur, observers from the headquarters of Navalny, showing directions from Yabloko, were refused to make the sites, citing errors in the design of directions. In the "Yabloko" it was indicated that the directions were filled correctly.
In the same city, a citizen who died 9 years ago was included in the plot No. 250 in the voter lists. At the same time, there were no deceased in the 2012 elections. In Kurgan, the voter Timofei Gubanov discovered his grandmother who died last year in the lists. Gubanov's family several times asked to cross out the deceased from the lists, but this was never done.
In St. Petersburg, on the site No. 33, on the contrary, the voter said that it was excluded from the lists in connection with death. A carousel was recorded in the same site. Soldiers from the military unit participated in it; Their vote was led by three coordinators. The soldiers told the observer that they vote "by order of the leadership, but without coercion."
In Saratov, on the site No. 54, the voter found that a certain outsider was included in his apartment, allegedly prescribed in his apartment. The stranger, according to the lists, has already voted.
On site No. 2187 in St. Petersburg, dozens of voters stated that they were discharged in different regions of Russia and foreign countries without their knowledge. Among the first, Dagestan and Kamchatka were mentioned, among the second - Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Egypt.
In Khabarovsk, on section No. 184, the chairman of the commission took the direction from the observer and sent a document for an indefinite time for verification. She declared her doubts that the observer "the one for whom she gives himself."
In Kemerovo, observers were not allowed to the plots without explanation. Later in the same city, a certain citizen appeared in the plot No. 137 and shouted "Putin - thief!". The police immediately took it.
In Rostov-on-Don, in several areas, they refused to register observers with directions from the Grudinin headquarters. In some areas, they said that there was no proxy who issued the direction; On others - that there are already observers with such areas. In total, 12 observers were removed from the plots in Rostov; Three were detained by the police. The detainees were charged with falsification of directions.
In Ufa from section No. 35, the regional coordinator of “Open Russia” was kicked out by Zulfia Gaysin, which presented the direction from the headquarters of Sobchak. The members of the election commission claimed that the paper was faked. In Krasnodar, from the site No. 2257, under the same pretext, the observer was removed from the "Yabloko". Observers in Nizhny Novgorod were also driven out; Two were detained.
In Vladikavkaz, two observers were detained on charges of illegal stay on the site: Alina Ivanova (section No. 344) and Dmitry Venzigina (the number of the site was not specified). On Ivanov, the chairman of the commission wrote a denunciation that the observer of the observer from the Grudinin headquarters was fake.
In the Bashkir city of Belebey, the observer Natalia Ivanova in the section No. 1197 was threatened with dismissal from work from the Orange store for submitting a violation statement in the election. The chairman of the commission informed the data of Ivanova to the mayor, and he contacted the director of the store. After that, the director and called his subordinate with threats.
A similar incident occurred in Michurinsk, Tambov region. There, by the name of Mikhail, his employer called an observer and said that he had complained about Mikhail’s obscene behavior in section No. 243 and the case “reached the mayor”. “I will not work with you,” he said. “If you don’t want to work with me, leave in a good way, do not be angry with me.”
In the Kuban, observers on mobile phones continuously received calls from unknown numbers, each time new.
In Krasnodar, voters said that at work they were forced to vote precisely on the site No. 2323. Meanwhile, in the section No. 2297 in Nizhny Novgorod, the voting participants photographed their ballots. In Berezniki, Perm Territory, employees of the local soda plant reported that they were obliged to take a selfie against the background of their polling station.
In Cherepovets, seven buses arrived in the site No. 877 with factories workers, who have more than 600 absenteeisms. Buses with employees of enterprises also arrived at the plots in Volgograd and Tomsk.
About 50 people appeared on the site No. 3795 in the queen, a suburb of Moscow, who discussed among themselves that how many times they will vote, they will pay so much. The policeman in this section prevented observers.
On the site No. 2204 in the metropolitan district of Konkovo, 2168 people voted in a absenteeism, many of whom were students. When leaving the site, unknown were interested in the names and faculties of students. They explained that the competition was announced: the faculty with the highest turnout would receive prizes.
In St. Petersburg, the cadet of the Military Medical Academy named after the anonymity of voting. Kirov. “We are driven away like cattle, under the threats of sanctions on elections in TIC No. 024,” he said. “We were forbidden to go to the cabins for voting. They force us to bring all relatives who are registered at the place of service.“ Who will show their perseverance, a hot, a bitch quietly at the faculty! ” - this is what large bosses conduct conversations with us.”
“Even those who lie in hospitals with hernias, broken legs, etc., will be taken out on special vehicles to the site,” the cadet added.
Meanwhile, in Nizhny Novgorod, a bus with clergymen drove up to the site No. 2546.
In the Dagestan city of Izberbash, police officers, who are not on the lists. They explained their vote with "production necessity."
Rostov Oblazbirk reported that he was checking information about the voting for patients of a neuropsychiatric boarding school in section No. 1829. To vote for patients, they took documents, the patients of the patients said.
In the site No. 326 in the city of Artem, Primorsky Territory, the bulletin was recorded. The stuffing took place in other areas, in particular in Kemerovo and Dagestan.
In the same Dagestan, in plots No. 1077 and 1110, observers were not allowed to move around the hall and conduct a video. Observers were not allowed to be admitted to a number of sites.
Later in the same region, an unknown person hit the observer in the same region when he refused to remove the camera. The police brought the attacker, but did not detain him. Later it became known that observers in plots No. 1111 and 1125 were also attacked. Police detained the observer on section No. 1008 of the observer.
In addition, a group of young people attacked observers in section No. 1126 in Makhachkala. After the brawl, two stuffed ballots were made. One of them was performed by the secretary of the election commission Irina Brovka.
There was a video from the chambers of the site 1126, where our observers were beaten. After the brawl, two stuffing were made. The first is an unknown young man, the second - the secretary of the commission of Brovkana Irina Yuryevna. The secretary confirmed the stuffing with the words "Oh, I forgot about the camera." pic.twitter.com/pats9gdbsy
- Observers of Dagestan (@dagestanelect) March 18, 2018
In Belgorod, in the section No. 68, the policeman detained a citizen who watched the vote, saying that he had no right to be there.
In Yekaterinburg, the policeman issued a protocol for the voter who tried to leave his ballot from the site No. 1253. In Saratov, in Saratov at Section No. 4, members of the election commission also called the security forces when the citizen was about to endure the ballot.
In Novosibirsk, at the site No. 1490, the police detained the voter Nikolai Vasiliev, who tore off the additional sheet illegally posted there, on which information about the foreign accounts of the candidate Grudinin was placed from the stand with information about the candidates.
Meanwhile, the territorial election room in the cocks, the Vladimir Region, at the request of the lawyer of the headquarters of Navalny, the activist of Open Russia, Kirill Nikolenko, removed the chairman of the district election commission No. 160 from the post of chairman of the precinct election and obliged to invalidate the ballots in the urn.
The chairman of the commission of the site No. 1749, which was located in the gymnasium No. 5 in the capital's suburb of Lyubertsy, was also removed from his post. There, the stuffing of the ballots was recorded on the video. The ballots in this urn are canceled, and it itself is sealed.
In Moscow, as reported by Gorizbirk, they are invalid bulletin from the URN in areas No. 1204 and 1353, since there were braided there.
Meanwhile, in the site No. 3159 in the metropolitan district of South Tushino, the chairman of the commission refused to allow a member of the territorial election commission with the right of deliberate vote, a participant in the open Russia mobile group Andrei Alexandrov to observe the vote counting.
Pavel Melnikov, a member of one of the capital's territorial elections from Yabloko, said that he had voted in the elections twice - first in the Moscow district of Mitino, and then in Odintsovo near Moscow, to check the operation of the mobile voter system. “I had serious suspicions that the purpose of this system did not correspond to the publicly declared,” the oppositionist explained.
The deputy chairman of the CEC Nikolai Bulaev said that in connection with Melnikov’s report, the commission turned to the police. “Very surprising,” the official said that a member of the TIC, "instead of monitoring violations of the law, violates the law himself." “As soon as the protocol is drawn up, it will cease to be a member of the TIC, and if the facts of a repeated violation are found, this will already be criminal liability,” Bulaev added.
A similar experiment was conducted in St. Petersburg by an employee of the Sobchak headquarters. Twice a day, he dispensed from his site through the public services portal and after that both times voted unhindered. Not finding the opposition in the voters' lists, a member of the local election commission noticed him: "Well, it’s not you to blame - the CEC is to blame, so vote."
In the plots in Kazan, Krasnoyarsk, Tyumen, Mordovia, Kabardino-Balkaria, electoral urns did not fall into the video camera review zone. In St. Petersburg, on the site No. 1661, they banned the video shooting, motivating such a decision by the fact that the military will vote there. The ban was lifted immediately after the arrival of a member of the territorial election commission.
In Grozny, the hospital employees were brought to the site No. 423. Their entry into the premises was led by the chairman of the election commission. In the other site in Chechnya, located in college, one of the employees of the institution rewrote all the voters.
In the Grozny district No. 437 there was the commander of the military unit, who noted the coming military and gave them some papers. The carousels and an “abnormally high turnout” on section No. 441 were also reported. The carousel was recorded in section No. 406. The group of 10 people gave them an indication of to enter the room in two or three so that the falsifications would not be striking.
In the same formidable Igor Efremov, a member of the election commission with the right of an advisory voice, the representative of the Sobchak headquarters, - the unknown persons threatened with reprisals when he tried to prevent the voting of employees of the nearby hospital, who organizedly appeared on the site without absenteeism and were included in an additional list.
Another representative of the headquarters of Sobchak, the publisher of the Mediazone, Peter Verzilov, who worked as an observer in Grozny, took to drink tea from the site. Verzilov did not get in touch. He later said on his Twitter: "Everything is okay with me - there was a benevolent conversation and tea with the head of the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny, during which the phone suddenly sat."
In the annexed Crimea, the Russian police received reports on mining six sites: three in Simferopol, two in Saki, one in Armenian. All areas were examined; They did not find bombs. The vote was not suspended for the duration of the checks.
In Sevastopol, the filming group "Rain" was kicked out of the site No. 97, saying that journalists did not have special accreditation. Employees of the Prochrevsky television channels were unhindered to the site, while the Rain reporters who had the accreditation of the CEC were threatened to call the police if they did not move away. The deputy chairman of the observer commission, Vadim Starkchikov, in response to the appeal of journalists, stated that the solution of the issue is not in his competence, and added that the CEC accreditation can be faked.
In the evening, the Novosibirsk Regional Organization of the Communist Party published on its website the first results of voting in the region. Meanwhile, the law prohibits the release of votes before the closure of all polling stations.
The first deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Alexander Gorova, said that since the beginning of the current presidential campaign on the fact of the violations identified, 13 criminal cases have been instituted. During the 2012 campaign, the police official noted, 23 such cases were opened.
The Kremlin set the main task in the current election to ensure a high appearance of voters. Meanwhile, unsystematic opposition organizations of various suses actively campaigned for the boycott of the elections, pointing to their non -competitive nature. At the same time, a number of structures, in particular the Federal Headquarters of Navalny, conducted a campaign to organize observation in areas, the purpose of which is not to allow to falsify the turnout.
In the last days before the elections , pressure on activists increased . In different regions, preventive arrests were practiced. Along with this, the security forces under various pretexts prevented the work of the headquarters of opposition organizations.