According to the Central Election Commission, as of 19:00 Moscow time, voters in the presidential election in Russia amounted to 59.5%. It is reported by Gazeta.Ru . According to the data at 19:30 Moscow time, the turnout amounted to 59.85%. As of 18:00 Moscow time, the Presidential Election in Russia was approaching 58%, amounting to 57.74%.

The day before, Russian citizens who have reached the age of majority could take part in the elections of the President of the Russian Federation. Many of them took advantage of not only their suffrage, but also the opportunity to demonstrate their creative. So, in the Leningrad Region, a man came to vote in a suit of the Sarmat missiles. This happened in the village of Gorbunki Lomonosovsky district.

In the election of the President of Russia by 11:00 Moscow time, the voter turnout was 16.91%. This was stated in the CEC, reports RBC . So, 5.98%of voters voted in Moscow, in St. Petersburg - 4.47%, in the Republic of Crimea - 13.08%. Regarding the appearance in the past elections, the current one turned out to be higher. Recall that in 2012, 12.2% of voters voted by 10:00 Moscow time, and the final turnout amounted to 65.34%.

A group of observers from Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kazan, who is in the presidential election in Dagestan, announced numerous stuffing in polling stations. As reported on Twitter of the observer team, a “crowd of athletes-bombs” arrived in the section 1126 in Makhachkala. They "carried out stuffing, without force not letting observers to the urns and selecting their equipment." In the areas of 1125 and 1111, in turn, attacks on the abbess and interference in work by the police were recorded.

Presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak cast his vote in the election of the country's leader. She came to the site in the center of Moscow. It is reported by RIA Novosti . Sobchak came to vote, accompanied by her husband Maxim Vitorgan. She cast her vote in the plot No. 158 at the Ludwig Van Beethoven children's music school. It is worth noting that Sobchak became the last presidential candidate to vote in the elections.

Elena Sycheva Voting in the presidential election 2018 The day before, Russian citizens who have reached the age of majority could take part in the elections of the President of the Russian Federation. Many of them took advantage of not only their suffrage, but also the opportunity to demonstrate their creative. So, in the Leningrad Region, a man came to vote in a suit of the Sarmat missiles. This happened in the village of Gorbunki Lomonosovsky district.

In the United States, a vote in the election of the President of Russia was opened. It is reported by RIA Novosti . Polling stations for Russians who were in the country earned at the embassy in Washington, as well as in the Consulate Generals in New York, Houston and Seattle. The voting site at the site at the embassy in Washington was personally opened by the Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov.

In most of Russia, polling stations in the presidential election were closed to the present moment. While voting continues only in the Kaliningrad region. It will end at 21:00 Moscow time. The CEC announced a turnout of 59.5% as of 19:00 Moscow time.

Today in Russia, adult citizens of the country choose the president. To date, all sites in the country have already opened, and in the east of the Russian Federation the vote is already ending. According to the official website of the CEC of the Russian Federation, as of 18:00 local time in Kamchatka, the turnout exceeded 63.8%, and on Chukotka - 76.3%.

The Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov said that provocations were recorded during the election of the President of Russia in the country. It is reported by RIA Novosti . “I can’t tell you that one hundred percent went as we would like, because, unfortunately, there were facts of provocations. Probably, this is not necessary to hide.

The former head of the Moscow Anti -Doping Laboratory Grigory Rodchenkov spoke with another portion of revelations. Only this time, not Russian, but Soviet athletes fell under the sight. The WADA informant himself, together with the former KGB officer, Vladimir Popov, told Play The Game . According to Rodchenkov, in the early 80s of the last century the most popular steroids were impossible to find. The top three of the most commonly used included Stanasolol, oral-turinabol and testosterone.

The UK declares the presence of evidence under the case of the poisoning in Salisbury of the former ex-employee of the GRU Sergei Skripal and his daughter. The head of the British Foreign Ministry Boris Johnson said that the kingdom has the fact that Russia has been engaged in the production of nerve-paralytic nervous substances, BBC reports.

Candidate from the Russian National Union party Sergey Baburin cast his vote in the election of the President of Russia. It is reported by RIA Novosti . In addition to him, in the election, the leader of the party "Communists of Russia" Maxim Suraikin voted. It is worth noting that Baburin came to vote in polling station No. 2151, where Vladimir Putin previously cast his vote. Suraykin voted at the polling station No. 137 in Moscow.

The current President Vladimir Putin, according to the first exit Pols, wins the election of the Russian leader. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the information provided by the VTsIOM. According to the results of the surveys, Putin is gaining 73.9% of the vote. In second place is the candidate from the Communist Party Pavel Grudinin (11.2%), in the third - the leader of the LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky (6.7%).

The UK refused the Russian side in access to the ex-GRU officer Sergei Skripal, poisoned in early March. It is reported by Interfax . London substantiated his refusal by considering Skripal a British subject, the Russian Embassy in London said. “We requested consular access to the Skripal with the same note as his daughter. We refused, since the British side considers it as a British citizen, ”the Russian diplomatic mission explained.