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Latest polls have shown no one in Russia seriously doubts Prime Minister and former president Vladimir Putin's victory,nike high heels but the only question is whether he can win more than 50 percent of the votes and avoid a second round run-off.

The Following is a profile of Putin, who served two terms as the country's president from 2000 to 2008:

Born in Russia's second largest city of Leningrad (today's St. Petersburg),nike heels for women on Oct. 7, 1952, Putin graduated from the Law Department of the Leningrad State University in 1975 and was commissioned to work for the former Soviet Union's State Security Committee (KGB).

In 1985 he worked in the former German Democratic Republic, or East Germany, as a KGB agent.

After the East German regime's collapse in 1990,nike dunk heels Putin returned to the Soviet Union and worked as an assistant to the rector of the Leningrad State University, and then became an advisor to Anatoly Sobchak, then chairman of the Leningrad City Council.

After Sobchak was elected mayor of St.cheap griffeys Petersburg on June 12, 1991, Putin was appointed head of the Mayor's Office Committee for External Relations.

In March 1997,griffey shoes he was appointed as a deputy chief in then President Boris Yeltsin's office and head of the president's Main Control Directorate.

In July 1998, Yeltsin appointed Putin director of the Federal Security Service (FSB),jordan heels the successor to the KGB.

In March 1999, while still heading the FSB, Putin was appointed secretary of the State Security Council. In August 1999,air jordan heels Yeltsin dismissed Sergei Stepashin, his fourth prime minister in 16 months, and replaced him with Putin. Upon Yeltsin's resignation on Dec. 31, 1999, Putin became acting president of Russia.

Putin won the 2000 presidential election and was re-elected in 2004.jordan high heels

In the 2008 presidential election, Putin endorsed then first Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev as he himself was barred from a third consecutive term under Russian constitution.

After Medvedev won by a landslide,cheap ken griffey shoes Putin became prime minister and leader of the ruling United Russia party.

In September 2011,ken griffey shoes Putin announced that he would seek the presidency in 2012, while Medvedev agreed to head the ruling United Russia Party's list in the Dec. 4 parliamentary elections.

In his election manifesto,air jordan high heels Putin promised to develop innovation-oriented economy that benefits the people and implement political reforms on the premise of stability. He also called for rearmament and modernization of the Russian forces.

With regard to foreign policy,jordan heels for women Putin advocated a multi-polar world and a bigger role of the United Nations, and rejected the expansion of NATO.

Besides, he pledged to nominate Medvedev as prime minister in the new government if elected president.nike jordan high heels

Putin is married and has two daughters.

The sixth presidential election of Russia concluded on Sunday with an early estimated turnout of 63. 37 percent. And exit poll results indicate incumbent Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's win with 58.3 percent of votes.

According to the Central Election Commission (CEC),griffey shoes nearly 64 percent of the 109 million eligible voters have cast their ballots in some 94,000 domestic polling stations and 384 overseas stations in over 140 countries.

SMOOTH VOTING

As Russia's vast territory encompasses nine time zones, the voting first began in its Far Eastern regions at 08:00 a.m. local time (2000 GMT Saturday),ken griffey jr shoes while voters in the westmost Kaliningrad, the enclave of Russia located between Poland and Lithuania, were the last to join the voting.

Outgoing President Dmitry Medvedev and his wife cast their votes at the No. 2634 polling station in a Moscow school, while presidential hopeful Vladimir Putin voted at the No. 2079 polling station in the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Putin, who arrived at the poll station at noon with his wife Lyudmila,ken griffey shoes said he had a good sleep and some exercise before came to vote.

The independent Mikhail Prokhorov was the first candidate to cast his ballot Sunday in the Krasnoyarsk region in east Siberia, where he was registered.

Another candidate Gennady Zyuganov,griffeys leader of the Communist Party, said he was voting for an educated and prosperous Russia as he cast his ballot in Moscow.

The voting was also conducted in outer space, as three Russian cosmonauts cast their ballots from the International Space Station (ISS), said Russian Mission Control.

According to the mission control,king griffeys the cosmonauts voted through their proxy while the space station was flying over the Hawaiian Islands, after head of the Cosmonaut Training Center press office took the votes from a private room, where cosmonauts normally talk to their families, for cosmonauts to fill in the ballot papers and put them into the ballot box.

In the CEC headquarters located in central Moscow, a video wall with webcasts from polling stations across Russia was launched Sunday.cheap ken griffey shoes

For the first time in history we see in real time mode that the vote in the Chukotka (in the Far East) started. For the first time in history we can see everything at all polling stations, CEC Chairman Vladimir Churov told reporters here.

According to the CEC,griffey shoes 2012 video surveillance was conducted at 91, 000 polling stations and over one million Internet users have been registered to monitor the vote online.

Some 700 observers from 56 foreign countries and organizations have been invited to monitor the voting.

The international observers praised the video monitoring system and the voting procedure.

The election is normal, and there are no violations. It is surprising how such a complicated electoral mechanism runs so smoothly, observer Alessandro Mussolini from Italy told Interfax news agency.

Over 80 percent of the questionnaires filled by international observers give good grade to the election,king griffey shoes according to co- chairman of the joint board of observers Igor Borisov.

We have received 122 questionnaires and 19 percent rated it as 'satisfactorily', he said.

VOTERS' VOICES

The five candidates running for the top office of the country are Vladimir Putin, leader of the Communist Party Zyuganov,cheap griffeys Vladimir Zhirinovsky from the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia ( LDPR), Sergei Mironov from A Just Russia party and an independent candidate and billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov.

Half of the voters leaving the poll stations told TingVoa.com that they had voted for Putin for his sincerity and ability to keep his campaigning pledges.

I vote for Putin, because he is capable. He had managed the country for eight years and improved Russia's competitiveness and economy, said 30-year-old voter Vyacheslav Mishin from Nizhny Novgorod, a Volga riverside city.

Mishin added that he hoped the new president could make more efforts in restoring Russia's powerful status and help build a multi-polar world system.

Iliya Balahanova,griffey shoes for women a public relations manager with a large Russian advertising firm, said: I voted for Putin mostly with regard of the international situation. Any change in the government will inevitably lead to a period of instability. I see candidate except Putin could guarantee a smooth and painless power transition.

Russia does not need any turbulence, added the 41-year-old PR officer.

I judge him (Putin) from his previous tenure as president, said 30-year-old lawyer Yevgenia Martynova. He has been the undisputed master of the nation while all the other candidates have no experience in running the country.

Yelena, a teacher works in Moscow, did not disclose her choice but told TingVoa.com that she voted for the one who she expects can lead Russia to prosperity.

The new president should create more jobs and offer us better education, she said.

Eighty-year-old Yekaterina Korolyeva said when the Communists were in power,griffeys 2012 life was better, so she voted for Zyuganov.

Others voted with some emotional links.

My husband used to work with Mironov shoulder by shoulder for several years.king griffey shoes 2012 He is nearly our family member, said 43-year-old economist Yelena Dudaleva.

Opinion polls show that most voters are expected to support 59- year-old Putin, who had served two terms as president from 2000 to 2008. But he will be forced into a second round if he gets less than 50 percent of votes in the first round.

The new president will be inaugurated in early May.

Russia's presidential candidate Vladimir Putin has gained more than 64 percent of votes based on 85 percent of ballots counted so far, securing his victory in the election, official figures from the Central Election Commission ( CEC) showed Monday.

Latest official counts posted on the CEC website show that Putin has kept the leading position with 64.84 percent of votes,griffey shoes while none of the other four candidates have garnered more than 20 percent of votes. Some 64 percent of the 109 million eligible voters have cast their ballots.

Calculation based on the preliminary turnout indicates that even if all the rest 15 percent of ballots go to his rivals, Putin still gets enough votes to avoid a second round.

The Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov pocketed 17.02 percent of votes,king griffeys while independent candidate Mikhail Prokhorov gained 7.02 percent.

About 6.31 percent of votes went to Liberal Democratic leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky and 3.73 percent for A Just Russia leader Sergei Mironov.

Putin has declared victory after exit poll results showed he would win 58.3 percent of votes.ken griffey shoes

This was a pure victory, which was gained in an open and honest battle, he said, calling on all Russians to unite around the interests of the people and the country.

Speaking to supporters in his campaign headquarters,ken griffey jr shoes Putin pledged to fulfill his campaign promises.

His rivals Zhirinovsky and Mironov have called Putin congratulating him on the victory, according to media reports.king griffey shoes

Mironov told reporters here that he believed the election results are true,women griffey shoes while Zhirinovsky said he had closely followed the voting process and did not notice any serious violations.

The preliminary official results of the election are expected to be announced later Monday,women griffeys said the CEC.

Russia observed its so-called Day of Silence on Saturday, one day before the country's presidential election.

Under Russian law,jordan heels election campaigning is prohibited on the day, although previously erected campaign billboards can remain in place so long as they are not within 50m of a polling station.

The blackout is designed to give Russian voters a chance to reflect on their decision without the pressure of campaigning.jordan high heels

According to local media, 65 percent of the 109 million eligible voters are expected to cast their ballots at 94,000 polling stations across the country, as well as 384 overseas stations in more than 140 countries.

Early voting started in some 37 remote and hard-to-reach regions of Russia,air jordan heels mostly in the Far East from Feb. 17.

Russian TV channels have run advertisements calling on eligible voters to cast their ballots in the election,nike heels and urging them not to oversleep on Sunday.

The Central Election Committee (CEC) confirmed 670 international observers had been granted accreditation to monitor the March 4 election, which Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin is widely expected to win.

The CEC also declared 100 percent readiness for the election.nike heels for women promising to declare the preliminary results of the voting as early as the morning of March 5.

A total of five candidates are vying for the top job, including Putin, who served two previous terms as president from 2000 to 2008, Gennady Zyuganov, leader of the Communist Party, Vladimir Zhirinovsky from the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), Sergei Mironov from A Just Russia party and independent candidate and billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov.

The latest poll published by the Levada Center,nike dunk heels a leading independent pollster in Russia, showed 62 percent of respondents believed Putin would win the election in the first round.

According to the poll, conducted from Feb. 17 to 20, with 1,600 respondents, 20 percent believed Putin would win in a runoff. Only 4 percent expected Putin to be defeated.

The poll also showed 80 percent of respondents believed Putin would ultimately win the election, while only 1 to 3 percent believed other candidates would become Russia's new president.

Another survey from the state-run pollster VTsIOM on Feb.nike high heels 11 also showed that Putin was favorite.

Since 2000, Putin has enjoyed solid support from various social classes, as supporters credit him with bringing stability to the nation after the turbulent 1990s, reviving the economy and ensuring the welfare of state employees, partially thanks to the windfall from increased oil and gas revenues.

Yuri Tavrovsky, a professor from Moscow Friendship University,nike dunk sb heels told TingVoa.com all opposition forces understood the power of Putin.

They participated in the presidential elections mainly for self-promotion and increasing their influence,air jordan high heels Tavrovsky said, noting the opposition candidates had been campaigning not so much for the Kremlin job as for their parties.

In December 2008, both houses of Russia's parliament approved constitutional changes that extended the presidential term from four to six years,jordan heels for women starting from this election.

After parliamentary elections in last December,nike jordan high heels Putin ordered the installation of web cameras at all polling stations to ensure a fair and transparent presidential election.

The bodies of the U.S. and French journalists recently killed in central Syria were handed over Saturday to the French ambassador and representatives of the Polish embassy in Syria.griffey shoes

The bodies of French photographer Remi Ochlik and American reporter Marie Colvin,ken griffey jr shoes who were killed last week in a rocket attack on a makeshift press center in the flashpoint neighborhood of Baba Amr of the central Homs province, were sent to the emergency section of al-Assad Hospital in Damascus earlier Saturday.

The bodies were handed over to the French ambassador to Syria Eric Chevallier and representatives of the Polish embassy in Damascus respectively,ken griffey shoes in the presence of representatives from the Syrian Red Crescent and the International Red Cross as well as the Syrian Foreign Ministry.

Poland has taken the responsibility of providing consular services for U.S.griffeys citizens in Syria after Washington's decision to close its embassy in Damascus on Feb. 5 to protest against the Syrian government's alleged violent crackdown on protesters. While on Friday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced at a European Union meeting that his country is also closing its embassy in Syria, as the situation there is unacceptable.

On late Thursday,king griffeys the Syrian authorities announced that they had discovered the bodies of the two journalists after the Syrian army cleansed Baba Amr from armed groups. While other sources told TingVoa.com that the Syrian army has disinterred the two bodies which were buried by rebel forces in Baba Amr.

Abdul-Rahman Attar, head of the Syrian Red Crescent,cheap ken griffey shoes told reporters during the handover process that the two bodies were transferred into the al-Assad hospital late Friday for forensic DNA analysis.cheap griffeys He said that the French ambassador had requested to transfer the two bodies to the French hospital in Damascus to prepare the two bodies for their repatriation.

Meanwhile,griffey shoes 2012 another Syrian Red Crescent official told TingVoa.com anonymously that other injured foreign journalists refused to be evacuated by the Red Crescent,king griffey shoes adding that truckloads of aid had arrived in Homs Friday and would enter Baba Amr soon to help the wounded.

The Baba Amr neighborhood of Homs has emerged over the past months as the epicenter of armed confrontation between troops loyal to Bashar al-Assad and armed rebels comprised partly of army defectors.griffey shoes for women

As activists said the region has been under the army's bombardment for nearly a month,griffeys 2012 the government defended its crackdown on the restive area, saying it was fighting armed terrorist groups and al-Qaida members,king griffey shoes 2012 who had reportedly infiltrated to Syria to fight alongside the rebels.

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