Moscow: President Putin has achieved a record election victory. This has strengthened their hold on power. However, his opponents staged protests at polling stations in the afternoon. While the US said that the voting in Russia was neither free nor fair.
Putin, a former lieutenant colonel of Russia's dangerous spy agency KGB, came to power in 1999. Since then there has been victory in the elections held every six years. If the 71-year-old remains leader for the next six years after winning the 2024 elections, he will surpass former Soviet Union steel leader Joseph Stalin. In his first interview after the election, Putin mocked American democracy, saying that the world is watching how one president takes the help of the courts to prevent another president from being elected.
An exit poll by the Popstar Public Opinion Foundation showed Putin receiving about 87.8 percent of the vote, the highest in Russian history. Whereas the Russian Public Opinion Research Center says that Putin has got 87 percent votes.
A spokesperson for the White House National Security Council said the election was clearly not fair. Because Putin has put his opponents in jail. Either he has stopped contesting elections. Its invasion of Ukraine is the deadliest conflict since World War II. Even if they call the attack on Ukraine a 'special military operation'. Ukraine frequently fires missiles at Russian oil refineries and its forces covertly infiltrate Russian borders.