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Russia's Putin set for landslide
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| Contributor | User 13 |
| Last Edited | User 13 Mar 14, 2004 03:15pm |
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| Category | News |
| Media | TV News - British Broadcasting Corporation BBC News |
| News Date | Sunday, March 14, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | An exit poll from the Russian presidential election says incumbent Vladimir Putin has been swept back to power with 69% of the vote.
The non-governmental Public Opinion Foundation conducted the poll of 120,000 people in 1,200 voting stations.
Communist Party candidate Nikolai Kharitonov was a distant second with 12.6%, the poll predicted.
Polling closed at 1800 GMT. Five hours earlier, turnout passed the 50% level required to validate the poll.
Analysts believed only a failure to reach the turnout requirement would have prevented Mr Putin's victory.
The BBC's Russian affairs analyst, Stephen Dalziel, in Moscow, says the image of Mr Putin as a 21st Century tsar evidently appealed to a people whose country has historically been ruled by a firm fist from the centre. |
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