Yesterday at 21 hours in Italy the electoral consultation began with the more than expected outcome that will see Vladimir Putin reconfirmed for the office of president. It will be necessary to wait before confirming the result considered that Russia is the largest country in the world with 11 time zones.
The Russians go to the polls in a very particular historical moment characterized by a growing tension that arose after the case of the former poisoned spy and that resulted in the expulsion from Great Britain of 23 Russian diplomats followed by the expulsion of as many British diplomats from the Russian territory and the stop of the Bristish Council.
Contrary to the rumors of recent days, Putin voted in Moscow and not in Crimea following a consolidated tradition, in fact, as in the presidential elections of 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012, he voted in the headquarters of the Russian Academy of Sciences on Leninsky Prospekt, at seat No. 2151.
Vladimir Putin, responding to the journalists who asked him what percentage of votes in his favor will consider a success, declared that he will consider any success come out from the polls today, as long as it allows him to drive the country again.