The voter turnout at the presidential election in Russia will be from 63$ to 67%, according to a forecast by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (WCIOM).
The pollsters expect that current president Vladimir Putin will have 69-73% of the votes, candidate from the Communist Party Pavel Grudinin 10-14%, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party Vladimir Zhirinovsky 8-12%, TV anchor Ksenia Sobchak 2-3%, Grigory Yavlinsky from the Yabloko party 1-2%, Sergey Baburin (the Russian All-People's Union), Boris Titov (the Growth Party), Maxim Suraikin (The Communists of Russia) will have less than 1% each.
▼ читать продолжение новости ▼74% of the respondents said they would certainly go to the polling stations, 9% said they are inclined to do so.
The poll was held on March 5-7, 9 among 4,000 Russians aged from 18.