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.
The affairs of the president are not judged by foreign policy, that is, ministers are scoring points on the social problems of the people, this has always been the case if you read history, nowadays problems only grow, like gasoline, housing and communal services, medicines, and after perestroika nothing has become cheaper. The poor get poorer and the rich get richer. Read Grudinin's program more closely.
I will vote for Pavel Grudinin!
The time for changes is ripe in the country and Grudinin is a worthy candidate!
Grudinin will return to the country all the good that has been lost in 25 years. He does everything good that has not been done in 25 years.
There is no one to choose from, very sad. Putin has done a lot for the country, you can't argue with that. But he pays more attention to foreign policy than domestic. I would like to live with dignity, and not exist !!!
Before building an internal policy, it is necessary to build a foreign one. So as not to indicate how to build an internal one. The memory is short. Chubais, Gaidar, Pavlov, Nemtsov have already built internal policy without regard to foreign policy. Have you forgotten the result? Well, Europe as an example ... even Germany cannot do what it wants, but does what the states, Britain, the European Union say (though Germany is butting as it can for North Stream-2, as this is the last line of “its independence ») And otherwise, she is not even free, though they live well, because this is a project that was supposed to be better than the USSR, to tell the whole world see democracy wins .... (after all, the United States must be PR, the same is South Korea). Only Afghanistan, Iraq, India with Pakistan, half of Africa, South America are far from these showcase democracies (Germany, South Korea, Japan). So the problem is being solved correctly, 1) Independence = Strong foreign policy activity against the West = USA and satellites. This requires costs, including the maintenance of Belarus's own satellites, for example, to the detriment of the Russians. 2) A good army. and then 3) Domestic policy, including the replacement of the Kudrins and others like him. In the meantime, the West is still strong, he will not allow the Chubais to be filmed. And about Borodin Pasha - I think in about 30 years we will read that this is a hero of the Russian Federation, a scout who dormant the vigilance of NATO and the Pentagon and allowed the Army to be reorganized imperceptibly, so that the amers were screwed up. Yesterday there was nothing, everything was "SAWED" and today it is a modernized and trained professional army.Something like this.
And with Grudinin they will collect money from the people. And our impoverished country stands in kilometer-long queues in the store. Let the salary and pension be given in time, than the earth underfoot will burn. Then nobody will need anything. I am for Putin.
Putin is only aware of the affairs of Moscow, Syria and Ukraine. And the rest do not care. More than half of our country live on 6t.r. .. There is nothing more to say. Everything has been bought and destroyed.
There are 3 groups of the population in Russia: 1. outspoken enemies (most of the officials who use their official position to fill their pockets and destroy infrastructure along the way, businessmen who export capital from Russia with billions of dollars and euros). 2. true patriots of Russia (ready to give their lives for the sake of Russia). 3. amorphous group (they will join those in power without thinking about the future). The fate of Russia is at stake. I would very much like the fate of the country after the elections to not be in the hands of Russia's enemies.
To vote for Grudinin, nominated by Zyuganov and KO, is once again stepping on the same rake. Think of the 1996 elections. What did Zyuganov promise, calling on all patriotic forces to vote for him and the Communist Party? 1) Impeach Yeltsin. Thanks to the patriots, the Communist Party received the overwhelming majority of seats in the State Duma, so what? Never mind, Zyuganov said that it was not time yet, we had to wait and waited until they lost the majority in the State Duma. 2) How much was said about the "Red Belt" and what? Nothing, many governors elected from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation have gone over to the Yeltsin government. 3) And what about Zyuganov's betrayal in the 1996 presidential elections? After all, he then defeated Yeltsin in the elections, albeit by a small margin. So what? But nothing, Zyuganov leaked his victory to the drunk Yeltsin quietly. 4) The episode of Zyuganov's betrayal on September 21, 1993 was also not an accident. If anyone has forgotten, let me remind you: After the announcement of Yeltsin's decree, Zyuganov immediately fled from the House of Soviets and made a panicky statement on the Yeltsin TV channel. In fact, Zyuganov repeated the act of Kamenev and Zinoviev, who on the eve of the October Revolution committed a similar act, for which V.I. Lenin called both political prostitutes. How to name Zyuganov, decide for yourself. Whom can Zyuganov's entourage nominate? Only the same subject. To vote for Grudinin is to fall into the same heap again. Personally, my friends and I will vote for Sergei Baburin, an honest Russian patriot, who did not shy away in difficult times, who did not become a servant of the anti-popular government.
well you are a storyteller
To vote for Grudinin is an opportunity to get out of the heap where we were pushed during the years of capitalism!
He may be a good person ...
Only Grudinin should be president! For the first time, Russia has a chance to choose a worthy person.
Unfortunately, Putin's victory in the 2018 presidential election is a foregone conclusion. Not all voters understand the danger for Russia and its people posed by Putin's liberal entourage: Kudrin, Gref, Miller, Dvorkovich, Medvedev, Nabiulina and other messengers of hell, whose name is "Legion". Worse than them, except that Yavlinsky and Sobchak. Having broken into power, they will surrender to the United States not only all geopolitical interests, but also the sovereignty of Russia as a state. Home-grown oligarchs like Titov are not much different from this company. It is not excluded that, having won the elections, Putin, like his predecessor Yeltsin, will resign and hand over power to the prime minister, who will most likely be Kudrin or someone else from this team. Then terrible times will come, Crimea and Donbass will be surrendered to Bandera, who will arrange a bloody massacre there, the Kuril Islands will be surrendered to the Japanese, and Kaliningrad to the Germans. Millions of refugees will pour into Russia, for whom there will be no housing or work, interethnic and inter-confessional contradictions will aggravate, regions will begin to separate, Russia will disintegrate into several puppet states under the US protectorate.The process of extinction of the Russian and other indigenous peoples of Russia will accelerate, the territory of Russia will continue to be populated by migrants from Central Asia. There will be little choice: either a quiet extinction, or a revolution and civil war for the right of our people to live with dignity in their land. Zyuganov, Grudinin and other CPRF functionaries are not suitable for the role of leaders. Let us recall at least the episode of 1993, when the “patriotic leader” Zyuganov not only ran away from the house of the Soviets, but also made a panicky statement on the Yeltsin television channel, that is, he repeated the act of Kamenev and Zinoviev on the eve of the October Revolution. By the way, V.I. Lenin called both political prostitutes for this act. So, neither Zyuganov, nor Grudinin and others like them are suitable for the role of a national leader, they scare and betray at any moment.