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Putin needs more than 50 percent backing to avoid a second round of balloting. A runoff would pit the premier against the second-placed candidate, currently Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov with 9 percent, according to FOM. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who...
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Second and third positions are held by Gennady Zyuganov and Vladimir Zhirinovsky, respectively. Coming on their heels is Mikhail Prokhorov who is thought to obtain not more than 8,7 percent of the vote, according to the VTsIOM poll. Interestingly,...
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Putin would garner 58.6 per cent of the vote, beating Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov by almost 44 percentage points, the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion said in an e-mailed statement Monday. The premier needs to win more than 50...
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Putin, seeking a return to the presidency in March 4 elections, leads polls with about 55 percent voter support, according to a survey of 1,600 voters by the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion. Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov polled 9...
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According to the poll’s results, he is likely to win about 60% of the votes. The candidate who has the next best chances is Gennady Zyuganov, the leader of the Communist Party. The results of similar polls held by other Russian organizations say...
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Vladimir Putin will win the March 4 presidential election with over 58 percent of the vote in the first round, according to a survey conducted by state-run pollster VTsIOM. VTsIOM head Valery Fedorov said the survey showed Putin will win 58.6 percent of...
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Russia’s Public Opinion Research Center said Putin is likely to win 58.6 percent of the vote, far ahead of his rivals. The poll of 1,600 people also predicts that Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov will come in second with 14.8 percent of the vote, said...
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The organizers of protests have vowed to mount even bigger rallies if Putin wins the presidency. The latest survey by the state-run VTsIOM agency predicted Putin, 55, would win in the first round with almost 55 percent of the vote with his nearest...
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Despite a growing protest movement against Putin's perceived hegemonic control over Russian politics, VTsIOM, which is a respected and historically accurate grant-funded polling service, said that the Prime Minister's closest opponent -- the Communist...
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“On February 11, we held a survey and forecasted the following: Vladimir Putin will win 58.6 percent of the vote, Communist party candidate Gennady Zyuganov will take second place with 14.8 percent, and Liberal Democratic leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky...
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"Putin will gain victory," the pollster's general director, Valery Fedorov, told reporters in Moscow. The forecasts were based on a poll of 1,600 people carried out across Russia this month. Second place will go to veteran Communist leader Gennady...
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This came in a statement by VTSIOM Director-General, Valery Fyodorov, during a press conference in Moscow earlier today. The Communist Party leader, Gennady Zyuganov, is due to come in second with 14.8% of the votes, while the Liberal Democratic Party...
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Prokhorov set out to be among the people. A crowd of about eighty thousand had come out to Moscow’s Sakharov Avenue to demand free elections and to lambaste Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Prokhorov is running for President in elections that take place...
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Putin, seeking a return to the presidency in March 4 elections, leads polls with about 55 percent voter support, according to a survey of 1,600 voters by the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion. Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov polled 9...
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In the meantime, the presidential candidates are taking part in television debates and are meeting with voters. They also have to make time for discussing pressing issues with the president. On Wednesday, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Gennady Zyuganov and...
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Early voting in the forthcoming Russian presidential election is getting under way at polling stations abroad. The first to cast their ballots will be Russians in Bulgaria, to be followed by other 80,000 Russian nationals in 58 countries. Early voting...
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VTsIOM interviewed 1,600 Russians Feb. 11-12 for its survey, which had a margin of error of 3.4 percentage points. The premier needs to win more than 50 percent to avoid a second-round runoff. Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov stood secondly at 9...
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“We will be training observers together and we will establish centers for data exchange in every region, which will be getting information from our monitors as well as from the League of Voters,” Ivan Melnikov, a senior member of the Communist Party...
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The leader of the Liberal Democratic Party added that he himself would never withdraw from the election and will never support any of his opponents, such as the Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov. At the same time Zhirinovsky said he himself is ready to...
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“Citizens must be given an opportunity to express their attitude towards the initiative,” he told a media conference devoted to Zyuganov’s presidential program on Thursday. Gennady Zyuganov has promised to change the constitution if he wins the March 4...
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Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov or Guennady Ziuganov (Russian: Генна́дий Андре́евич Зюга́нов; born 26 June 1944) is a Russian politician, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (since 1993), Chairman of the Union of Communist Parties - Communist Party of the Soviet Union (UCP-CPSU) (since 2001), deputy of the State Duma (since... Full Article
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