President Vladimir Putin, according to Sunday exit polls from VTsIOM and FOM, was confidently re-elected to a fourth term. Self-nominated Putin received from 74 to 77%, the second was the candidate of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Pavel Grudinin (11–12%), ahead of the leader of the LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky (6 and 7%) with an almost double advantage.

March 18, 2018, 23:53 / Politics / Photo Photo. Rally-concert “Russia. Sevastopol. Crimea" on Manezhnaya Square “Success awaits us, yes!” – Putin said to everyone who came Vedomosti Sergey Bobylev/TASS A rally-concert “Russia. Sevastopol. Crimea" Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, more than 35,000 people took part in it Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti Participants of the rally-concert “Russia. Sevastopol.

Former GRU Colonel Sergei Skripal may have been poisoned with a nerve agent through the ventilation in his BMW, ABC News reported , citing intelligence sources. According to the TV channel, the British authorities have a clearer idea of ​​how exactly the injection took place. In their opinion, the toxin was used in the form of a dust-like powder. The British side believes that it circulated in the ventilation of the BMW of the former GRU officer.

Non-tax - tax Mandatory non-tax payments will be included as a separate chapter in the Tax Code, said First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov. The Ministry of Finance presented approaches to the bill, which defines three groups of such payments. The first may include payments close to taxes, for example, payments for environmental impact.

After 30% of the ballots have been processed, incumbent President Vladimir Putin is leading the presidential elections, with 73.11% of the votes, with the Communist Party candidate Pavel Grudinin in second place with 14.96%, the LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky in third with 6.73%, and Ksenia Sobchak in fourth with 1.39%. The relevant data is presented on the information screen of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC).

Russian presidential candidate and current head of state Vladimir Putin has voted in the presidential elections, a Vedomosti correspondent reports. As in the elections of 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012, Putin voted at the building of the Russian Academy of Sciences on Leninsky Prospekt in Moscow. This year, polling station No. 2151 is located there. Voters' access to the station was not blocked during Putin's visit. The president made it clear that he voted for himself.

“There are queues at this section today because a lot of artists have arrived who are performing today <...> It’s a bit disappointing that it’s very cold and freezing.” Ella Pamfilova, Chairperson of the Central Election Commission "If you didn't go to the "elections" - you did the right thing. And if you did, then in vain. These candidates do not deserve your vote. They did not try to earn it." Alexey Navalny, politician

At one of the polling stations in Lyubertsy, a bookmithing was recorded, Interfax reports with reference to the chairman of the Moscow Region Irina Konovalova. “We have an emergency on the site No. 1480, the city district of Lyubertsy. On the surveillance cameras, we found the stuffing of the ballots, ”Konovalova said. According to her, the stuffing occurred at about 9.00. The stationary urn is sealed, the ballots will be declared invalid.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the liberation of the city of Afrin in northwestern Syria from terrorists. He specified that the liberation of Afrin is part of Operation Olive Branch, which is aimed at destroying terrorists. "The city of Afrin is no longer fluttering the torn and dirty symbols of terrorists, but flags symbolizing stability and security.

In Ukraine, police are not allowing Russians into diplomatic missions to vote in the presidential elections, RIA Novosti reports. In Lviv, police and national guard officers have fenced off the Russian consulate building, where the polling station is located, with a metal fence. "We only let in those who work at the consulate, and only according to the list we have. We don't let anyone else in," said a police officer outside the consulate.

March 18, 2018, 23:33 / Politics / Video “Success awaits us! Yes?”: Putin spoke to supporters on Manezhnaya Square The President called for large-scale work in the name of Russia Vedomosti

The presidential candidate from the "Civil Initiative" Ksenia Sobchak voted in the elections. She came to the polling station with her husband's daughter Polina Vitorgan, who recently turned 18 and is voting for the first time. Sobchak voted at polling station No. 158 using an absentee ballot. "We decided to try this system. I chose the station to go vote, to see how the absentee ballot system works, because it seemed to me that there could be some problems here.

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe testified to US Special Prosecutor for the "Russia case" Robert Mueller, CNN reports, citing a source. The source did not specify when exactly the conversation took place. McCabe gave Mueller recordings of his conversations with President Donald Trump, the source said, and notes he made while he was acting FBI director immediately after James Comey was fired. On Friday, March 16, Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired McCabe as deputy director of the FBI.

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Self-nominated candidate in the Russian presidential elections Vladimir Putin, according to preliminary data from the Central Electoral Commission (CEC), is gaining 72.06% of the votes in the elections. This is evidenced by the first preliminary results from the CEC. Such data were obtained based on the processing of 21.83% of the protocols.