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 election 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 elections, to 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.
I am for Pavel Grudinin. The only adequate presidential candidate.
An oligarch in Ukraine, and how do you like it?
I will go to vote for Pavel Grudinin. The only adequate presidential candidate. Putin has not lived up to expectations.
The masquerade of moral monsters continues, the people are silent and stupidly believe that tomorrow will be better than yesterday, and today it crawls out of yesterday and, now, again, on the horizon, a new six-year-old is waiting for the people, only heroin workdays will come instead of the heroes of labor. What to do? An eternal question to Chernyshevsky.
Of all the candidates, the worthy Grudinin, the rest are just foam that has surfaced since perestroika and parasitizing on the ideals of democracy and liberalism, echoes of the 90s, people despising their people and Russia as a state.
Do not worry, boys and girls, everything is ready for the inauguration of the current President of the Russian Federation!
Putin has long been outdated. After 2008, I see a deterioration in the quality of life. Not statistics on TV, which are fake, but real conditions. I live in the village. There used to be a millionaire collective farm, it was full of people, cattle in almost every yard. On holidays we walked, got together - it was fun. Of course, there were no particularly rich people, but somehow they lived and did not suffer. And now - from the collective farm there are ruins, one and a half tractors, a chairman and a drunken watchman. It is not clear why all this is needed at all. There is no normal work. Even in the regional center. My wife works on a private farm for ten thousand seven days a week, and I work as a locksmith and collect scrap metal from landfills. How much I earn, I will earn that much, but not much. There is enough money to eat, pay for communal services and maintain 30-year-old Zhiguli. There are no children. Are we afraid to give birth, what if we don’t feed? And the people became few. Dispersed in all directions. To earn money ... It's not realistic to open a business - a neighbor tried - they tortured me with checks, taxes and other extortions. Almost no pants left. For the entire village of 300 yards, there are 3 cows left, and some have ten chickens. If someone does not manage to pay for gas on time, gas workers come, right in winter, in frosts, they cut off the pipe. One large family had their gas cut off because they could not pay for the installation of the meter. We just celebrated the new year, there was nothing special on the table. So, salad Olivier, sausage and a bottle of moonshine. There is no New Year's mood. I have not seen any festivities in the streets, no decorated Christmas trees.So, a few alconauts of some sort, but they are like a new year, that every day is the same. People drank themselves to death, out of desolation. I even understand why they need to flood their eyes so that they don't see all this. In the regional center, out of poverty, people dressed trees with colorful rags. I saw this for the first time. And when I saw the President's New Year addresses on TV, it became even sadder. We don't need such a president. On his conscience are millions of impoverished people, ruined production and agriculture. Enough, tired. Lies and empty promises on TV, fake statistics and pre-beaten elections must be left in the past. We will hopefully vote for Pavel Grudinin, we think that this person will be able to change the quality of life. But this is all that an ordinary person needs.
Vladimir, weren't there collective farms in 2008? Not in the 90s? I understand that you were a child then and you don't remember a shit. So do not powder the brains of others.
Remember the USSR (I remember vaguely, due to age) according to the stories it was stable in everything, the shelves were empty, but everyone had everything. Apartments were given free of charge, but now ... in general it was better. Only Grudinin !!!
A huge army of bureaucrats, guards and judges stands behind Putin. The latter showed the world their "independence" in the Ulyukaev case. In short, the people are tired of the lawlessness of the thieves. So much has accumulated that it is already overflowing ... Putin had a chance to leave with dignity. Since they left: Moscow Mayor Popov, Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, Boris Yeltsin. It's time for the changing of the guard. The people vote for change - for Grudinin!
No, with Navalny, Sobchak and everyone else, everything is clear.
They do not know how to think and speak clearly, one repeats corruption, corruption like a mantra ... ..
Show house 2 is still missing in the Kremlin (although if only neighing) ... they are only interested in dollars in the literal sense of the word.
Until 2014, Putin was a fine fellow, but how did prices rise ... ..
For me, at least a flood, but you make the prices in the five so that the minimum does not grow, and the maximum salary rises, and prices fall. This is the topic!
Grudinin President!
Why doesn't anyone talk about the police in their plans? People have not received an increase in salary since 2010. But the army is raised and raised
I have not been in the army for a long time, but I believe that if the State does not have an army, then there is no State! And the fact that they are paid, so we will not become poorer, believe me, the ARMY is needed, at least about …… .b!
Have you heard of Colonel Zakharchenko? As he says he lived on one salary.
The last promotion for the army was in 13.