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Putin's coalition gains more than 50 percent of Sunday's vote
Russian president Vladimir Putin's United Russia coalition won big in Sunday's parliamentary vote winning a total of 54.1 percent of the vote with 75 percent of the votes counted, according to Russian language news accounts.Despite a suffering economy, buffeted by a recent oil price drop, economic sanctions imposed by Ukraine, the EU and US, United Russia has managed to shift some votes away from their next biggest opponent, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which won 13.89 percent of the vote. Vladimir Zhirinovskiy's nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia currently maintains a very close third place with 13.42 percent of the vote. Turnout in the vote was reportedly 48 percent. Posted by: badanov 2016-09-19 |
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