Following Putin’s Landslide Victory, Opposition Candidate Calls Election “Filthy”
Officially securing 77 percent of the vote, Vladimir Putin easily soared to victory, winning his fourth term as Russia’s head of state. With nearly all votes counted, the Central Election Commission said that in a distant second place was Pavel Grudinin, candidate of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), successor to the former ruling party of the Soviet Union.
