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Election Day in Russia

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Millions of Russians took to the polling booths on Sunday to cast their votes in regional and municipal elections.

Millions of Russians took to the polling booths on Sunday to cast their votes in regional and municipal elections.

© RIA Novosti . Alexander Kryzhev / Go to the mediabankMillions of Russians took to the polling booths on Sunday to cast their votes in regional and municipal elections.
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Millions of Russians took to the polling booths on Sunday to cast their votes in regional and municipal elections.
© RIA Novosti . Eugene Samarin / Go to the mediabankThe most important race is happening in Moscow, where Acting Mayor Sergei Sobyanin (photo) faces off against Russia’s protest leader Alexei Navalny.
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The most important race is happening in Moscow, where Acting Mayor Sergei Sobyanin (photo) faces off against Russia’s protest leader Alexei Navalny.
© RIA Novosti . Maxim Blinov / Go to the mediabankVTsIOM, a state run pollster, said late Sunday that Sobyanin got 53 percent of the vote, while Navalny (photo) received 32 percent.
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VTsIOM, a state run pollster, said late Sunday that Sobyanin got 53 percent of the vote, while Navalny (photo) received 32 percent.
© RIA Novosti . Pavel Lisitsyn / Go to the mediabankIvan Melnikov, the Communist Party’s No. 2 man, goes third with 8 percent of the vote, according to exit polls.
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Ivan Melnikov, the Communist Party’s No. 2 man, goes third with 8 percent of the vote, according to exit polls.
© RIA Novosti . Vitalii Belousov / Go to the mediabankExit polls revealed that Sergei Mitrokhin, the head of the Yabloko social-democratic party, took some 3 percent of the vote.
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5/17
Exit polls revealed that Sergei Mitrokhin, the head of the Yabloko social-democratic party, took some 3 percent of the vote.
© RIA Novosti . Michail Voskresenskii / Go to the mediabankNikolai Levichev, a functionary from the pro-Kremlin A Just Russia...
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Nikolai Levichev, a functionary from the pro-Kremlin A Just Russia...
© RIA Novosti . Eugene Biyatov... and Mikhail Degtyaryov of the nationalist Liberal-Democratic Party each won only 1 percent of the vote, according to exit polls.
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7/17
... and Mikhail Degtyaryov of the nationalist Liberal-Democratic Party each won only 1 percent of the vote, according to exit polls.
© RIA Novosti . Vladimir PesnyaAs of 6 p.m. Moscow time, the turnout at the Moscow elections was 26.46 percent.
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8/17
As of 6 p.m. Moscow time, the turnout at the Moscow elections was 26.46 percent.
© Sputnik / Alexei Druzhinin / Go to the mediabankRussian President Vladimir Putin casting his vote in the Moscow mayoral elections.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin casting his vote in the Moscow mayoral elections.
© RIA Novosti . Alexander Astafeev / Go to the mediabankPrime Ministry Dmitry Medvedev and his wife Svetlana heading for their polling station.
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Prime Ministry Dmitry Medvedev and his wife Svetlana heading for their polling station.
© RIA Novosti . Alexei Nichukin / Go to the mediabankElderly couple before voting in the Moscow mayoral elections.
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Elderly couple before voting in the Moscow mayoral elections.
© RIA Novosti . Eugene Epanchintsev / Go to the mediabankSoldiers before voting in the gubernatorial elections in the Trans-Baikal Territory.
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12/17
Soldiers before voting in the gubernatorial elections in the Trans-Baikal Territory.
© RIA Novosti . Eugene Epanchintsev / Go to the mediabankA fruit stall at a polling station in Chita, eastern Siberia.
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13/17
A fruit stall at a polling station in Chita, eastern Siberia.
© RIA Novosti . Vyacheslav Reutov / Go to the mediabankVoting in the flooded Khabarovsk Territory.
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14/17
Voting in the flooded Khabarovsk Territory.
© RIA Novosti . Vladislav Lonshakov / Go to the mediabankAnti-drug campaigner Yevgeny Roizman, who is running for mayor of Russia’s fourth-largest city of Yekaterinburg, before casting his vote.
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Anti-drug campaigner Yevgeny Roizman, who is running for mayor of Russia’s fourth-largest city of Yekaterinburg, before casting his vote.
© RIA Novosti . Said Tsarnaev / Go to the mediabankAn election commission in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, during the republic's parliamentary elections.
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An election commission in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, during the republic's parliamentary elections.
© RIA Novosti . Eugene Epanchintsev / Go to the mediabankInmates of a detention center in Chita before voting in the gubernatorial elections.
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Inmates of a detention center in Chita before voting in the gubernatorial elections.
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