President Vladimir Putin has won the Russian elections by a huge margin of votes. After which 71 year old Putin has secured his tenure for the next 6 years. However, thousands of his opponents demonstrated at polling stations. Here, America has said that these elections were neither free nor fair. According to media reports, Putin got 87.8 percent votes. Communist candidate Nikolai Kharitonov came second, getting less than 4 percent of the votes. Remained at third position - Vladislav Davankov and Leonid Slutsky remained at fourth position.
Following the results, the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom and several other countries said that the elections in Russia were neither free nor fair. Political opponents were imprisoned and censorship was imposed. Putin told his supporters that he would give priority to work related to Russia's 'Special Military Operation' in Ukraine and strengthen the Russian army. "We have many tasks ahead of us. Anyone who wants to intimidate us, wants to suppress us, no one in history has ever succeeded in doing that. They have not succeeded even now and they will never succeed in the future.