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Russia 2018 Presidential Election
Russian presidential election held March 2018. Putin won re-election with 77% of the vote. His strongest challenger, Navalny, was barred from running.
Russia 2018 Presidential Election is one of the tracked elections shaping power in Russia.
- Date
- March 18, 2018
- Country
- Russia
- Contested
- President of Russia
- Winner
- Vladimir Putin
- Candidates
- 2
Outcome in context
Putin won re-election with 76.7% of the vote. Alexei Navalny was barred from running due to a contested fraud conviction. The election followed Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea and came months before the Novichok poisoning of Sergei Skripal in the UK.
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