It comes as Putin comfortably extended his rule of Russia for another six years this evening, winning 76.67 per cent of the vote - his highest score ever.

The Central Election Commission said communist Pavel Grudinin came in a distant second with 11.78 per cent.

Third was ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky with 5.66 per cent.

The only candidate to openly criticise Putin during the campaign, liberal TV star Ksenia Sobchak, won just 1.68 per cent.

most serious rival, opposition leader Alexei Navalny, was barred from the race.



Another term will take him to nearly a quarter century in power - second only to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.


The win gives Putin a strong mandate to pursue his conservative nationalist policies at home and abroad.

In the wake of his victory, Putin will seek retribution as his nation was made to “grovel in the dirt” after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, British defence chief Admiral Lord West told Daily Star Online.

Ksenia Sobchak, presidential candidate from the Grazhdanskaya Initsiativa Party, speaksGETTY - CONTRIBUTOR
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Ksenia Sobchak, presidential candidate from the Grazhdanskaya Initsiativa Party, speaks
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, left, speaks with Presidential candidate Ksenia SobchakAP:ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, left, speaks with Presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak
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And in another clip a Mother Superior appears to check how the nuns in her order have voted
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CCTV footage appears to show ballot rigging by election officials in the Russian presidential election
And other experts have said Putin has made “no secret” of his plans to reverse the dissolution of the USSR, bringing back the powerful state in all but name.

During a victory speech outside the Kremlin he vowed to put national interests first - and dismissed accusation of involvement in the poisoning of Sergei Skripal as "nonsense".

He spoke to the crowds after a video emerged from the Moscow suburb of Lyubertsy, where a blonde election official appears to stash voting slips in the ballot box.

Soon after, another official is seen putting what is thought to be more ballot papers in the box - all captured on CCTV.

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Memes circulating on social media mocked up Putin as Kim Jong-un
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This meme shows Putin mocked up as Soviet-era stagnation ruler Leonid Brezhnev
Voting officials are supposed to be at polling stations to stop vote tampering and guarantee the integrity of the election.

Runner-up Grudinin said the election was “the dirtiest” since the Soviet Union collapsed.

He said: “Regretfully, Navalny was right. One can vote two or three times, and there are such examples in Moscow region.”

And third-placed candidate Zhirinovsky said: "There is no democracy [in Russia], there is no competition.

“[There is] just one candidate from the Kremlin and all others are ‘pugs’.”

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Putin thanks supporters for triumph at the Russian elections
Putin’s support was strongest in the corrupt, warlord-run regions of Dagestan and Chechnya – where almost 92 per cent were reported to have backed him.

Critics pointed to these huge margins as evidence is suspicious results.

In another video from Dagestan, a man appears to fill a ballot box with slips at an empty polling station - as a female election official stands guard.

At another polling station - number 1126 - in the same region, a group of wrestlers create a commotion while a man stuffs a ballot box with papers.

Final election result with all votes counted
Vladimir Putin - 76.67%Pavel Grudinin - 11.78%Vladimir Zhirinovsky - 5.66%Ksenia Sobchak - 1.68%

The link https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5841519/russian-elections-presidential-rigged-vladimir-putin-video-latest/

Man's hunger for power is insatiable.

I see him as president for life with in view of what happened in China.

So we get elder brother in rigging
issorite

Hahahahahahaaa! Anglo-Zionist MSM doing what they know how to do best. Well, this trash is duly noted & discarded into the bin.

These western hypocritical bastards should also go & label Angela Merkel of “Western Germany” a dictator for clinging to power for the 4th term.

Truth is Putin is still Russia's President and there's nothing any hating-bastard can do about it.

Zoharariel:
Hahahahahahaaa! Anglo-Zionist MSM doing what they know how to do best. Well, this trash is duly noted & discarded into the bin.

These western hypocritical bastards should also go & label Angela Merkel of “Western Germany” a dictator for clinging to power for the 4th term.

Truth is Putin is still Russia's President and there's nothing any hating-bastard can do about it.

Confirm!!!

Zoharariel:
Hahahahahahaaa! Anglo-Zionist MSM doing what they know how to do best. Well, this trash is duly noted & discarded into the bin.

These western hypocritical bastards should also go & label Angela Merkel of “Western Germany” a dictator for clinging to power for the 4th term.

Truth is Putin is still Russia's President and there's nothing any hating-bastard can do about it.

Gba be!

NATO and the world powers should dispatch their armies to Russia and China forthwith to liberate their citizens.

Oh I forgot, those are not African nations that could be messed with and trampled.

you mean arab countries
don't forget they couldn't do anything in rwanda after the fear of somalia gave them wisdom

LibertyRep:
NATO and the world powers should dispatch their armies to Russia and China forthwith to liberate their citizens.

Oh I forgot, those are not African nations that could be messed with and trampled.