On March 4, Russian voters cast ballots for a new president across the sprawling country's nine time zones at more than 90,000 polling stations.Vladimir Putin declared victory at a rally in central Moscow with election officials saying he looked to have won more than 60 percent of the vote.
Russian Presidential Election
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Prisoners vote in Butyrka prison, Moscow.
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A woman looks at a list of presidential candidates at a polling station in Grozny, Chechnya
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Soldiers hold their ID at a polling station in Moscow
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Russian soldiers stand in a queue at a polling station in Moscow.
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An Orthodox monk casts his ballot during the presidential elections at the Nilova Pustyn monastery near the town of Ostashkov
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A feminist activist from the FEMEN group is arrested while trying to steal the ballot box used by Prime Minister Vladmir Putin as part of an antigovernment protest.
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Police and Interior Ministry troops in downtown Moscow on election day.
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Police officers cast their votes in Moscow.
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Voters fill out ballot papers in booths at a polling station in a student hostel in the southern city of Stavropol.
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A man casts his vote in a polling station in the central Russian town of Divnogorsk.
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Sailors queue to vote at a polling station in the far eastern city of Vladivostok.
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Winter-swimming enthusiasts cast their ballots in a polling station in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk.
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Members of a local electoral commission bring a mobile ballot to elderly people in their house in the village of Boreshino, some 40 km outside the western Russian city of Smolensk.
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Wearing their traditional Russian costumes, members of a folk group receive ballots at a polling station in the village of Koshchino, outside Smolensk.
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Transparency International's Elena Panfilova (left) observes at a Moscow polling station.
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Putin supporters gathered on Moscow's Manezh Square after polls closed on March 4.
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People stand near screens showing preliminary results at the campaign headquarters of Vladimir Putin in Moscow on March 4. (REUTERS/Grigory Dukor)
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Vladimir Putin (left) greets supporters as President Dmitry Medvedev applauds at the Manezh Square rally near the Kremlin on March 4. (REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov)