According to data at 15.00 in Russia in Russia, the turnout is 26.59%. The data provided 57 regions. The CEC believes that the turnout will generally be lower than in past presidential elections. Most likely, 60-65%will come to the plots, that is, about the same as the past parliamentary elections. In Moscow, according to the head of the Mosizbirkom Valentin Gorbunov, voters traditionally swing for a long time - an hour ago voted 33% of Muscovites. In St. Petersburg - about 25%.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, "public order and safety during mass measures are ensured in full." About 300 thousand employees of the internal affairs bodies and about 8.5 thousand military personnel of the internal troops were engaged in ensuring order.

Alexander Veshnyakov announced new data on the Far East obtained on the basis of processing 12.25% of the ballots. The first three looks as follows: Putin has 44.98% (less than 21:00), Zyuganov has 30.97% (a little more), Aman Tuleyev is still in third place - he has 9.32%. Yavlinsky scored 5.2%, Zhirinovsky - 4.04%, Titov - 1.18%, Pampilova - 1.03%. Everyone else gained less than 1%. Against all - 1.66%. Data on the turnout also did not change much - 66.41% of voters came to the plots.

Evgeny Gavrilenkov, Deputy General Director of the Bureau of Economic Analysis, on the personnel composition of the future government specifically for Polit.ru: “A difficult question. I’m afraid that it is unlikely that anyone can give an accurate answer. Yes, and there are no trends in general. We know very little about the principles of government formation, since they seem to be concentrated inside one person.

The attempt to vote was unsuccessful for presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Filling the ballot, he pressed so much on the handle that he broke the paper. In exchange for the spoiled Zhirinovsky, a new one was given. It turned out that with such energy Vladimir Volfovich voted for himself. In general, he believes, "in the first three there should be Zhirinovsky, Govorukhin and Skuratov."

Vladimir Putin continues to confidently lead in St. Petersburg. According to RIA Novosti in Gorizburkom, according to the data at 23.00 for the IO, 62.33 voters voted. In second place - Gennady Zyuganov /16.5 % /, in the third - Grigory Yavlinsky /10.81 % /. In total, 64.92%voted.

In Moscow at 16:30 the elections took place. According to data from 110 polling stations on which scanners are installed, 51.89% of voters came to the sites. Scanners give information almost immediately, the error is no more than 2%. Meanwhile, according to 14:00, 33.97% of all citizens voted. The horiz being evaluated by the turnout of the voters as "quite high." True, in the past parliamentary elections, the turnout in Moscow was 66.13%, and 69.34% of voters in the 1996 presidential election.

Neither peace, no war

According to the Oblazbirkom of the Samara region, 54, 21% of voters voted for 16 hours. Kaka usually, in rural areas, the appearance of voters is maximum - more than 62%, in Samara itself - 51%. The residents of Togliatti are the least active - there are still no 50% of the list of list. However, there were no excesses.

At the moment, the elections can be considered consisted in nine subjects of the Federation. 54.67%already voted in Yakutia, in the Primorsky Territory - 50.27%, in the Kamchatka region - 55.44%, in the Magadan region - 57.05%, in the Sakhalin region - 55.50%, in the Jewish Autonomous Okrug - 62.23%, in the Buryak - 65.71%, in Koryak - 63.67%and in the Chukchsk - 64.10% of voters.

In one of the most difficult sites - in Chechnya - by 10.00 9.65% of the list of voters voted. The local election commission note the high activity of voters in many sites. In neighboring Ingushetia, in the first two hours, according to the chairman of the Republican Election Commission, Kazbek Kosuev, the turnout is even higher - 14%. However, this does not apply to Chechen refugees - for example, only 6 voters from Chechnya voted at the 12 polling station in Nazran.

In St. Petersburg, the elections as of 18:00 took place. Voted 52.85% of voters. In the Leningrad Region, 57.5% of voters came to the sites.

The head of the CEC Vladimir Veshnyakov announced preliminary voting results in the Far East. The data in GAS "Elections" provided 8,300 commissions in which 6.86% of the total number of voters voted. According to this information (in alphabetical order), the candidate Govorukhin scored 0.26%, Dzhabrailov - 0.7, Zhirinovsky - 4.4%, Zyuganov - 30.95%, Pampilova - 1.07%, Podbeskin - 0.15%, Putin - 45.06%of scum - 1.07%, Tuleyev - 8.87%, Tuleyev - Tuleyev - 8.87%.

The call about the laid bomb on the site on a student street in Moscow was false. Recall that the election commission and voters have already been evacuated. The promptly arrived group of sappers, which included a dog handler with a dog, examined the premises of the polling station, but did not find explosive objects.

At 17 hours, the appearance of voters around the country amounted to 58.23% - said Valentin Vlasov, Deputy Chairman of the Central Election Commission. Thus, the 1996 indicator has already been exceeded, he said.