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Vladimir Putin stands to overtake Josef Stalin and become Russia's longest-serving leader for more than 200 years. Thousands of opponents staged a protest ...

Early results show Putin winning some 87 percent of the vote, the highest-ever result in Russia's post-Soviet history.

The vote, weeks after opposition leader Alexei Navalny's death, keeps Putin in office until at least 2030.

Long lines formed at some Russian polling places at noon Sunday, apparently in support of the "Noon Against Putin" protest.

Exit polls and the first results showed that President Vladimir Putin won a record 88% in Russia's presidential election on Sunday.

Officials give Vladimir Putin 87% of the vote, in an election where no credible opponent could stand.

Voting in the Russian presidential election ended Sunday and early results indicated Vladimir Putin had a landslide victory.

Russian dissidents living in Vilnius, Lithuania, are speaking out against Vladimir Putin, who's set to win a fifth term as president.

From the hush of isolated Siberian villages to the clamor of big cities to war battered towns in occupied parts of Ukraine, Russians voted in a presidential ...

What Putin won wasn't an election in any traditional sense of the word.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping, and other leaders benefiting from Vladimir Putin's rejection of a Western-led global order, will be cheering his inevitable ...

Preliminary results indicate a huge victory for Vladimir Putin but thousands protest at polling stations and Russian embassies worldwide.

Russian presidential candidate and incumbent President Vladimir Putin speaks at his election campaign headquarters, after polling stations closed on the final ...

Vladimir Putin has cracked down on dissent, but it hasn't stopped critics from speaking out. Many of them now live in Vilnius, Lithuania, a place some might ...

Russians crowded outside polling stations at midday Sunday on the last day of a presidential election, apparently heeding an opposition call to protest ...

The polls are now closed across Russia, but the outcome was never in doubt: Russian President Vladimir Putin has secured a fifth term in office through a ...

Almost complete presidential election results underlined Vladimir Putin's total control of Russia's political system but opposition still managed to surface ...

President Vladimir Putin's rule over Russia will be extended for at least another six years, after the Kremlin declared him the landslide winner of a ...

Presidential election results underline Vladimir Putin's total control of Russia's political system, but his foes made their presence known.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday congratulated Vladimir Putin on winning another term as Russia's president and said China was set to maintain close ...

After all, in Russia the Kremlin tightly controls the political system, including elections. But what will Vladimir Putin do with his 87%? What will a fifth ...

President Vladimir Putin has sealed his control over Russia for six more years with a predetermined landslide in an election that followed the harshest ...

The Kremlin stage-managed Russia's presidential vote over the weekend to send a singular message at home and abroad: that President Vladimir V. Putin's ...

Vladimir Putin won a landslide reelection victory, taking some 87% of all ballots following three days of voting derided by Russia's opposition and the West ...

Putin extends rule in preordained Russian election after harshest crackdown since Soviet era ... Vladimir Putin has almost completely crushed dissent in Russia ...

Putin hails his victory in a Russian election with no real opposition. The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that examines whether the government ...

Western governments lined up on Monday to condemn Vladimir Putin's landslide election victory as unfair and undemocratic, but China, India and North Korea ...

MOSCOW — The Kremlin on Monday brushed aside condemnation of the Russian presidential election as neither free nor fair and rejected allegations of ...

When Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared for a late-night news conference to claim a fifth term, he looked visibly elated, as if manipulating another ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said early Monday that he supported an idea to release opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a prisoner exchange just days ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that he agreed with the idea of a prisoner swap involving opposition leader Alexei Navalny, ...

Speaking to reporters late Sunday night, Putin made rare comments on the death of his political nemesis Alexei Navalny.

Vladimir Putin has always refused to refer to his main opponent in Russia by name, but now that Alexei Navalny is dead, he has changed tack.

President Vladimir Putin sealed his control over Russia for six more years on Monday with a highly orchestrated landslide in an election that followed the ...

Vladimir Putin was reelected with 87% of ballots, in a three-day election derided by Russia's opposition and the West as neither free nor fair.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country won't relent in its invasion of Ukraine and has announced plans for a buffer zone to protect against ...

The Russian leader made the comments following a presidential election that watchdogs have been quick to call a 'sham' contest.

Russian President Vladimir Putin extended his rule until at least 2030 in a heavily stage-managed election.

A close-up image of Putin, who lifts his hand in a thumbs- Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with the media at his campaign headquarters in Moscow on March ...

A day after a rubber-stamp presidential election, President Vladimir Putin said he would not back down in Russia's war against Ukraine.

A senior Ukrainian official said on Monday Russian President Vladimir Putin's idea of creating a buffer zone inside Ukrainian territory was a clear ...

The president addresses thousands in Moscow after official figures suggest he won 87% of the vote.

Vladimir Putin has ruled Russia for a quarter century. This weekend's election results confirmed that he will reign for another six years.

President Vladimir Putin won a record post-Soviet landslide in Russia's election on Sunday, cementing his grip on power, though thousands of opponents ...

Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini distanced himself on Monday from Western leaders' critical response to Vladimir Putin's landslide victory in ...

While the Russian election results were condemned in the west, the reaction across Asia, Africa and Latin America shows a new global dynamic is emerging.

Russian President ...

The three-day ...