Putin to win Russian election in first round

Will be the election of Vladimir Putin as president in the first round of the March elections with a vote by more than half, and avoid a run-off polls that the state will undermine his authority on the eve of its scheduled return to the Kremlin higher, and expect the Minister Monday.Prime Putin hopes to win convincingly March 4 elections in order to take a bite out of a protest movement in growing urban areas, which cast him as a leader of the authoritarian rule of the cast system.Once corrupt political and tightly controlled as leader of an alpha dog in Russia by U.S. diplomats said public opinion research in Russia, and talk about anything less than complete victory for the leader of the largest in Russia and could have been imagined before the protests, the largest of rule.Putin 12 years it is likely to win 58.6 per cent of the vote, far ahead of nearest rival, the center (VTsIOM), which has a history of accurately predicting the results of elections. Putin Russia will win, "said director of public opinion polls, Valery Fedorov, told reporters in Moscow. and Projections are based on a poll of 1,600 people carried out across raised this place month.Second Russia will go to the leader of the Communist veteran Gennady Zyuganov, who is likely to win 14.8 percent, and the mood change said.A opinion polls among voters against Putin in the big cities is speculation that the former spy in the KGB could face humiliation win less than half the votes, which undermines his claims of majority support, and caused even admitted round.Putin 2 this month he could face a second round, though he warned such a move would inflame the internal conflict and political instability in Russia.Sleep soundlyBut the survey indicates that although Putin faces more protests from the article 12 years ago, his aides believe that the ex-spy in the KGB could still bring in enough votes to secure another six years as head of the Kremlin chief.Putin's former staff, Alexander Voloshin , and another said the outlook for the elections and pointed Putin gets 59-61 percent of the vote. News, said on Twitter, would make a lot of "sleep more soundly.Though poll may allay fears in the Kremlin on the results of the elections, it also points to at least 10 percentage points down to Putin since the last presidential election. In 2000, Putin won 53 percent of the vote, and in 2004 won 71 percent of the vote, according to official results. student, Dmitry Medvedev, won 70 percent of the vote in the national outlook 2008.VTsIOM Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader would gain 9.4 percent followed by the hum of billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov financial child with 8.7 percent, and former House Speaker Supreme Sergei Mironov, a rate 7.7 percent.Opponents such as Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov and blogger Navalny Alexei say that the elections will not be legitimate and must be responsible for the fraud and it was clear that the results in favor . Putin Putin was surprised by the size of the protests against the parliamentary elections on December 4, at first refused to opponents such as the pawns of Western brands, and even the talk monkeys.But and seriousness of the challenge became clear, Russia's most popular political change of direction, re-formation of his team and the approval of some changes planned to open a tightly controlled political, which is still the leaders of the protest dominates.The, a group split from politicians, activists, journalists and bloggers, and called for a re-run parliamentary elections were rigged. Official results show Party of Putin's ruling won by 49.3 percent from vote.During parliamentary elections , and the VTsIOM poll out less than 1 percentage point from the official result, expected Putin United Russia party would win 48.5 percent of the vote