Chairman of the Russian Central Electoral Commission Vladimir Churov said that Vladimir Putin got 63.71% of vote, after almost all ballots have been counted.
Vestnik Kavkaza reported earlier that Putin called CIS states the absolute priority of foreign policy.
Alexander Iskandaryan, Director of the Caucasus Institute, told Vestnik Kavkaza that there will be no serious change in relations with CIS states or it would there would be slightly more influence, because resources of such influence are dropping.
He noted differences in relations with various CIS states, such as big difference in ties with Turkmenistan and Belarus.
Vladimir Putin also stated that Russia will not change its attitude towards Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Iskandaryan believes that Medvedev’s decisions on the two breakaway republics were consolidated and made at the same offices, so there should be no changes expected.
Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that the government will try to improve the mature civil society and said that there would be no outbursts of Gorbachev’s liberalism.
