On March 18, 2018, presidential elections were held in Russia. Date when the head of state was elected for a six-year term.
The election campaign of the candidates started in December, the budget spent a record 17.69 billion rubles on it, it follows from the CEC resolution.
Live broadcast of the presidential elections in Russia
Due to the peculiarity of rounding the results, there may be a discrepancy in the total amount of percent ± 1%.
2018 presidential candidates
The official start of the election campaign began in December, after the publication of the resolution of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on the appointment of elections on the official website.
The final list of officially registered candidates for the presidency of Russia in the 2018 elections included:
| Candidate | Political career | Campaign logo | Registration date | Rating and program |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vladimir Zhirinovsky Liberal Democratic Party | Deputy of the State Duma (since 1993) LDPR Chairman (since 1992) | – | December 29, 2017 | |
| Pavel Grudinin Communist Party | Deputy of the Moscow Regional Duma (1997–2011) Chairman of the Council of Deputies of the urban settlement Vidnoye (since 2017) |  | 12 january 2018 | Pavel Grudinin's 20 Steps Program Pavel Grudinin's rating |
| Vladimir Putin Self-nomination | President of Russia (2000-2008, since 2012) Prime Minister of Russia (1999–2000, 2008–2012) Chairman of the United Russia party (2008–2012) FSB director (1998–1999) |  | 6 february 2018 | Election program not presented Vladimir Putin's rating |
| Grigory Yavlinsky Apple Party | Chairman of the Yabloko Party (1993–2008) Deputy of the State Duma (1993–2003) Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg (2011–2016) |  | 7 February 2018 | The Road to the Future program Rating by Grigory Yavlinsky |
| Boris Titov Party of Growth | Chairman of the Party of Growth (since 2016) Commissioner for the Protection of the Rights of Entrepreneurs in Russia (since 2012) |  | 7 February 2018 | Growth Strategy Program Boris Titov rating |
| Sergey Baburin Russian national union | People's Deputy of Russia (1990–1993) Deputy of the State Duma (1994–2000, 2003–2007) Chairman of the ROS party (since 2011) | – | 7 February 2018 | |
| Maxim Suraykin Communists of Russia | Chairman of the Central Committee of the party "Communists of Russia" (since 2012) | – | 8 february 2018 | The program "The first 100 days of the Stalinist communist president" Rating of Maxim Suraykin |
| Ksenia Sobchak Civil Initiative | Member of the Coordination Council of the Russian Opposition (2012—2013) Member of the Political Council of the Civil Initiative Party (since 2017) |  | 8 february 2018 | 123 Difficult Steps Program Ksenia Sobchak rating |
What the newsletter looked like
At a meeting on February 8, the CEC approved the ballot for the 2018 elections, as you can see below. It includes 8 names of candidates in alphabetical order, as required by the Federal Law "On the election of the President of the Russian Federation."
Chronology of preparation and conduct of elections
Key dates in the electoral process:
- December 15, 2017 - The Federation Council has set the presidential elections in Russia for March 18, 2018
- On January 7, the acceptance of documents from self-nominated candidates ended
- On January 12, the acceptance of documents from political pariahs ended
- January 2018 - formation of polling stations
- By 18:00 on January 31, 2018 - submission of voters' signatures to the CEC (300,000 for self-nominated candidates, 100,000 for candidates from parties),
- Until February 10 - publication of the final list of candidates for the presidency of Russia in 2018, officially registered by the CEC.
- February 2018 - formation of precinct election commissions, publication of the electoral program, its submission to the CEC
- 19.02 - 17.03 - election campaigning in print media, radio and television
- Until March 17 - the right to refuse to participate in the elections, publish the results of polls and forecasts of voting results
- March 17, 2018 - "Day of Silence", a ban on any kind of campaigning
- March 18, 2018 - election date, voting day
- Until April 1, 2018 - publication of the results.
- April 8, 2018 - second round (if necessary).
Election results, who won
Composition of the Central Election Commission (CEC)
The Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation is a federal state body formed in accordance with electoral legislation, organizing elections and referendums in the Russian Federation, independent of other government bodies within its competence.
The seventh composition of the election commission will operate from 2016 to 2021. It has 15 permanent members.
In the regions, young people get drunk, there is no work. Working state employees are sitting on a penny, barely making ends meet. The authorities say one thing, but in fact everything is exactly the opposite. Probably, there is no family that would not fall into credit bondage. People with super-profits make money on the pennies ripped off the poor population. Ay, wake up, is that not enough for you? Is the stranglehold on your neck not quite tightened yet?
Fools and roads, and Vadia is a pensioner. The trouble of Russia.
The country should have a change of power, and the responsibility of the previous rulers for their actions. Putin, by his nomination, grossly violates the Constitution of the Russian Federation. The most worthy candidate for the post of President of the Russian Federation, from among the candidates, in my opinion, is Pavel Grudinin. He has a good program and people who are ready to implement plans to raise the living standards of PEOPLE in our country. Already Grudinin's rating is quite high. Throwings have already begun against him, with which the Kremlin wants to tarnish the reputation of the future President of the Russian Federation. And the choice is for everyone. And the future of our children and ourselves will depend on this choice.
Presidents cannot be elected based on technology, he is good and bad. So only friends are chosen. We must all realize that mankind has invented only 4 types of systems: slave-owning; feudal; capitalist; communist. Therefore, from the beginning, everyone must decide for which system he himself.
One thing can be said about Putin's foreign policy - it's bearable. But, under the communists, regardless of even the leader, the communist government was respected and feared. Only when the enemy of the communists, Gorbach, took the helm, the country ceased to be respected.
How poor they lived under the USSR, life expectancy, quality of life were at the top and ranked 4th in the world, and now we hang out at 64th place in the world. So what are we arguing about?
With all due respect to all candidates. Vladimir Vladimirovich is certainly good, but Vladimir Volfovich simply must go down in the history of Russian rule!
It's time to put Putin as tsar and not as president - Putin is tsar
They are trying to beat us in the head that without VV Putin there will be a complete collapse and this is quite possible, but Putin will not last forever and the sooner a legal change of power occurs, the better. The attitude of society towards the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the United Russia is extremely negative, Zyuganov GA stepped over himself and put forward a worthy candidate for the business executive who created the standard of living that most people dream of.
Indeed, we live worse every year.And you are blind if you think otherwise.
The only candidate who pours in some more hope that we will not all end up in the trash heap is Grudinin.
He just lit up the edge, and you already lit up with hope?
They even rushed to agitate others. ;))
If you know what about the "state farm" in Vidnoye, then announce it.
I know that the lands of this "state farm" are located right next to the Moscow Ring Road in the south of Moscow, where new buildings are growing. Only, these are not at all "state farm" areas.
I wonder how it gets worse? A car in every family or even every family member, mink coats, through one, universities are overcrowded, despite the paid regime, the Russians left 19 billion euros abroad during the vacation season, we have been receiving maternity capital for a decade, 60 thousand ISIS have been destroyed. in Syria, the Crimean bridge is being built, many enterprises destroyed in the 90s have been launched, without Russia, not a single issue in the world is being resolved, despite the sanctions and much more. It is pointless to list for those who cannot see beyond their pocket, and who sighted, he knows all this himself. The smell of western strawberries ... Nuland cookies don't tell you anything? One country is already ruled by a "sweet" oligarch.
I decided to answer the questions posed by an alternative pensioner and an anonymous author.
I am a national pensioner who has worked for 35 years at an engineering plant. But who you are is not clear! Painfully cleverly mess up the people. I doubt it's free, just because of my beliefs. If you have a clear vision of the country's development path, then express it, at least briefly on the forum, and do not turn everything upside down. Or send your proposals to the campaign headquarters. They accept all proposals for consideration. Why is Putin so hated by the West and their hangers-on? Because it does not completely destroy the country. He does not give up the islands, Siberia, or the Caucasus, and they say the son of a bitch seized the north. Because he took a course towards a calm, stable development of the country. All that remains is to bite, on the thighs and on the heels! Either sanctions, or athletes, or else they will come up with something else. Who needs chaos in the country? It is clear to anyone who wants to catch their fish in troubled waters. Next to us is a typical example of Ukraine, where a course for hugs and kisses is taken with America and the West. Do you think the common people got better there? The only thing that they caressed about is visa-free passports in order to get an influx of low-paid workers. So the Ukrainians are happy about it, they have brought the country to that. But they managed to set up military bases and secret laboratories of biological and chemical weapons on the territory of Ukraine. So explain to me an unreasonable pensioner how you in Russia are going to produce competitive industrial goods on a collapsed and degraded industrial base that has lagged behind the world level for 40 years? I just understand that it is impossible, but you probably not. For hundreds of years in our country, the main forces and brains have been focused on the development of the military-industrial complex, and Putin took as the basis for the development of the future state the reanimation of this very competitive platform. This is the most reasonable option, in addition to the natural defense of the country, also the development and production of high-tech, imported-substituted goods on the basis of the military-industrial complex. These developments will gradually be transferred to the civilian production sector. This is not blah blah, but the real way! And he came to power as a nominee of a large group of sober-minded patriots and managers of the Yeltsin team, which was not indifferent to the fate of Russia. Yeltsin was tired of fighting and ceded power to a younger and stronger leader. What about Chubais and others, would you like the country to drown in blood? This is the fifth column. There are millions of them. They are the same citizens of our country, albeit with a different worldview. Five or ten people will be pinned down or imprisoned, and then the stench is so much that they say Stalin's repressions are returning. Now the most important thing is to firmly hold the wheel in your hands and not let it knock it out of your hands. Go on an even course forward and then there is hope to get out of the fog.And if we shy away from side to side, we will never get out of shit. So explain to me, dear anonymous, to whose mill are you pouring water? As for voting for Grudinin, I will tell you that with all my respect for him as a good person and a strong business executive, I will not vote for him. And here's why: 1) the country is not a collective farm named after Lenin. There are so many twists and turns and pitfalls here that the collective farm never dreamed of. Even with all his natural talent, Putin did not delve into all the nuances from the first year. 2) While Grudinin will sort out the waterfall of affairs that has fallen on him, the Communist Party will rule the state, occupying all key posts. No wonder they took him on the shield! A real opportunity to gain votes through him. This will be a sharp departure from the course to the left. I managed to live during this period of empty chatter and delusional ideas, with a planned economy, where it is planned for one with a bipod seven with a spoon, plus the development of the outskirts and plus the maintenance of the development of socialism in Africa. The slogan of communism is from each according to his ability and to each according to his needs. Beautiful in words. But in fact, those with a spoon have much more needs than those with a spoon! Once I asked a friend of a young man for whom he voted in the last elections. He spoke for Zhirinovsky. I asked why this is so. But because he's cool, ha ha ha. Elections are not tidy. We choose the fate of the country, and our own future well-being. It is necessary to include the brains. Fools and roads are the eternal misfortune of Mother Russia. I didn’t say this, but our historical classics.
Vadia is a pensioner.
However, Vadia is a retired person, you are not rich at all! Don't watch the first channel in the morning!
The blind man understands that we have entered the deepest recession from which we need to get out for more than one decade! And by choosing Putin, you put an end to the future of Russia!
This was moved by the post, the kremlebotische. I copied half a method! How much are they paid for now? 500 rubles?
For Pu now only degenerates and Judas can vote. Or are you a degenerate? :)
Dear Vadia, pensioner, in order to evaluate the activities of the current president, it is not necessary to have a super analytical mindset, it is enough to analyze your pension and the salaries of government ministers, information about which, considering a sabotage, was quickly hidden from the people, perhaps you managed to read that Mr. Siluanov is a month and a half gets a million.
Bloomberg notes that Russia's 27 richest people were able to overcome the negative economic consequences after the annexation of Crimea to Russia in 2014: in 2017, their combined fortune grew by $ 29 billion - to $ 275 billion, which is more than before the introduction of economic sanctions by Western countries. And they are building a second center for the destroyer of Russia. The Presidential Administration (UDP) by the end of 2017 will reconstruct the Dolgorukov-Bobrinsky estate in Moscow, where a branch of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center Foundation (Yeltsin Center), established by the Presidential Administration ( AP). The estate will house a museum and exhibition complex, a library and a restaurant. The former office of Boris Yeltsin from the 14th building of the Kremlin did not fit there. The contractor of the project worth 1.33 billion rubles. selected by OOO Remtechnik. And Grudinin has been working for the people and a team with them for several years.
Probably Grudinin can be a good president, PROBABLY! And Putin is already the president under whom we live in peace and tranquility. Look at what is happening in the world and a change of president is the worst thing that can happen now. And I am amazed at the people who say that we have begun to live worse, you probably forgot the time when you got up at 5 in the morning to have time to shop with cards, empty store shelves, and money? saved up to buy something expensive (an apartment or a car), but could only buy a bedside table. Let me remind you this is 90 years. Yes, not everything is good with us, but we live in peace and we have something to eat (and there will always be not enough money).And Grudinin needs to go to the government, the Duma ... you can promote your ideas not as president, but in four years we'll see ...
And 17 years was not enough for Putin ??
Putin was just lucky with the 2000s, when oil soared, there was nowhere to put money ... And as soon as difficult circumstances arose, he can only make promises of a good life. Only the people are already beginning to degrade. You can't say a superfluous word, they will be considered extremism and imprisoned, but where is freedom. Putin has no presidential program. Trusts Medvedev and the State Duma, who are constantly inventing new taxes for collecting kopecks from the population, while the average salary of a deputy is 450 tr. Where is the stability? Anyone but Putin! People are simply afraid of change and a return to the 90s, which are already on the doorstep, and in some regions have already come!
I am amazed at such people who, ALL their lives, got up at 5 am, went to the shops with cards. And there are empty shelves! I studied, worked, under the USSR. I received a free education, from which I was given an apartment. And the parodox did not die of hunger! how this current government zombies people, there is a piece of bread, there is no war, good. And why should a war start under the new president? corruption at all levels of government.
Yes, how much will you cling to the 90s …… .17 years have passed ………… I see everyone who has no other answer for Putin. All who for him unanimously remember the 90s. In the 90s, production in Russia WAS, and now MADE IN CHINA
The capital of the Altai Territory. I have several professions, for 3 years I practically eat one Chinese woman, there is no work, there is one fucking thing all around, I cannot find a job for the third month, even as a loader. I did not celebrate the New Year, because only debts, there is nothing to pay for the apartment, I sell the property under the hammer for a pittance. My wife and child live separately, with her grandfather, I cannot provide for them, and neither myself. Go rob? There is poverty all around, half of the population is working for the owner, without an official. If you don't like fuck it, they will tell you so. This is reality, it is better to die than to live like this in the world ...
and today you buy cars and apartments for one salary
How stupid and evil you are. I work in a rural area and receive 35,000 rubles. My husband and son work in the city, the salary is also not bad. We have two cars, a house, an apartment for our son, we took out a mortgage (in the past years we could not afford it) and we live not richly, but normally. Now, about getting a job, all my friends have jobs. You need to drink less and get angry with everyone, then you will find a job. I will never hire a person who is always not happy with everything. And I cling to 90 in order to show that we have begun to live better. and it is not necessary to say that in the 90s there was production, where? now the authorities are increasing production, and some groups hiding behind ecology do not allow it to develop. and do not compare the USSR and the 90s. I was also born in the USSR. There were many drawbacks and that time can also be criticized, but I'm not talking bad about him, there was work and it was possible to find where to live. BUT mind you not Putin destroyed the USSR. All that you write is phrases taken from somewhere and put in the wrong place! Most importantly: in our time, the change of the president is bad!