CEC Chairperson Ella Pamfilova said everything is planned to hold an official meeting of the Commission on the said day at 11:00 hours, Moscow time, where all results will be officially summarized.

“The country is huge; we need time to get the documentation from all places where voting took place. This requires time to calculate everything, so we weighed, analyzed our possibilities, and decided that it will be on Thursday, March 21,” Pamfilova stated.

The Russian presidential elections were held on March 15-17 for the first time in three days. This time, we use remote electronic voting in about a third of the country’s regions.

The CEC announced that after 99.43 percent of ballots were counted, incumbent President Vladimir Putin leads with 87.32 percent of votes.

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