The head of the Central Election Commission of Russia Vladimir Churov announced that Vladimir Putin was elected by the president of Russia on March 4, Interfax reports. There will be no second round. According to 10:00 Monday, more than 99 % of the protocols were processed. According to preliminary data, Vladimir Putin received 63.75% of the votes of Russian voters. In second place is Gennady Zyuganov with 17.19% of the vote.

The Tagan court of Moscow refused to satisfy the request for the withdrawal of the investigator, which was stated by the lawyer of the participant of the feminist punk group Pussy Riot, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, detained after the action in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Interfax reports. Svetlana Aleksandrova, during a meeting on Monday, stated that there were no grounds for withdrawing an investigator.

On March 5, the Krasnogvardeisky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested the director of the Chinese restaurant Harbin, where on March 2 there was an explosion of gas and a fire, Interfax reports.

The leadership of the London Chelsea on Sunday decided to resign the head coach Andre Villash-Boisha. The club, the owner of which is Roman Abramovich, could not withstand the last failures of the team, which rushed in the standings of his championship for fifth place with a lag behind a leader of 20 points. Indecent indicator for the modern Chelsea. The performance of the London club and in the European arena can be called inexpressive.

The Moscow prosecutor’s office sent Boris Nemtsov, Alexei Navalny and Sergey Udaltsov on the inadmissibility of violations of the law, the RIA Novosti website reports. In addition to them, the warnings were sent to Eduard Limonov, Sergey Davidis, Anastasia Udaltsova, Ilya Yashin and some other activists.

The Moscow Government and Sberbank plan a joint project, which will resume the production of cars at the I.A. Likhacheva (ZIL). According to RBC Daily , a source familiar with the details, Sberbank will be the chief investor in a joint project, under which the Moscow government will provide part of the territories of ZIL. It is expected that the first client of this joint venture will be the Italian Fiat, which can organize here assembly of Grand Cherokee, Jeep Compass and Fiat Ducato cars.

The 2012 Financial Innovation Forum, which will be held in Moscow on March 28-29, will become a platform for discussing and analyzing the main world trends in the field of creating investment, venture and non-state pension funds and their activities in the Russian Federation and abroad.

A bill was introduced to the State Duma, 10 times increasing fines for prostitution and pimination, the Russian News Service reports. The document is proposed to raise the maximum fine established in the Code of Administrative Offenses for citizens from 5 thousand rubles to 20 thousand.

The famous actor and the failed politician Ivan Okhlobystin got to the hospital, reports Dot.ru. Due to severe poisoning, the artist could not even vote in the presidential election. The actor briefly wrote about the incident on his Twitter : “I thundered in intensive care. Poisoning". Okhlobystin also posted a photograph on the Internet in which he is captured lying on a bunk, with droppers and an artificial respiration apparatus.

In the near future, the State Duma may be submitted a bill on the exclusion from the Criminal Code of the article on the unlawful seizure of a car without the purpose of theft, which will tighten the punishment for the theft, the RIA Novosti website reports.

Russian presidential candidate Vladimir Putin received 46.95% of the vote in Moscow after processing 100% of the ballots, follows from the data published on the official website of the Moscow City Wharus. In second place is the businessman and self -nominated Mikhail Prokhorov, who gained 20.45%. In third place in voting in the capital, the leader of the Communist Party Gennady Zyuganov, who was supported by 19.18% of voters.

Political scientists commenting on the victory Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the first round are confident in the patterns of such results. Putin, nominated by the United Russia party, the entire elected campaign was the favorite of the race, ahead of the opponents technologically and ideologically.

The exile of observers in this campaign was not as massive as in the Duma, the election headquarters of almost all candidates recognized. Kommersant tried to classify the methods of expelling observers from the sites. The standard trouble-free reason for the removal of the observer-“interferes with the work of the election commission”-was identified by the chairmen of the precinct commission (PEC) in the practice of the regional elections of the cycle of 2008-2011.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service doubts the validity of prices for the service and maintenance of cars in dealerships, writes Rossiyskaya Gazeta . Within two to three months, the service will study the situation on it and conclude whether it is necessary to apply punishment to manufacturers and dealers for violation of antimonopoly legislation.

In Moscow, in parallel with the opposition rallies - on Pushkinskaya Square, which, according to Sergei Udaltsov, gathered from 30 to 40 thousand, and according to the police - 14, the Communists in the Novopushkinsky Square, which gathered about 300 people, and Rumolovtsev on the theatrical - on the Manezhnaya Square, the missile rally was held by Russia - Putin - Victory. More than 10 thousand people gathered in the city center.