Russian prime Minister Vladimir Putin, a member of United Russia, has won the presidential elections with 63.81% of vote. Gennady Zyuganov, communist leader, got 17.19%, independent candidate Mikhail Prokhorov got 7.78%.
Vladimir Zhirinovski, LDPR leader, got 6.23%, Sergey Mironov, leader of Fair Russia, got 3.84%.
Over 44.9 million people voted for Putin, over 12.1 million for Zyuganov, over 5.4 million for Prokhorov, over 4.3 million for Zhirinovski, over 2.7 million for Mironov.
Vladimir Churov, head of the Russian Electoral Commission, will have briefing at 10 am, about 99.9% of ballot papers should be processed by that time.
