Central Election Commission chief Ella Pamfilova said that nearly 76 million voters cast their ballots for Putin, his highest vote tally ever.
Vladimir Putin extends rule in preordained Russia election after harshest crackdown since Soviet era
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The head of Russia's Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova, said Thursday that together with the Russian military, security forces and the Moscow-appointed governors in Ukraine, election authorities would decide by Dec. 12 on “the possibility of holding” the presidential vote in the Ukrainian regions.
Ukraine says any Russian presidential voting in its occupied regions would be 'null and void'
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