So, according to the Public Opinion foundation, Vladimir Putin will win the 2024 russian president ial elections with a result 87. 8 . Nikolai kharitonov took second place with 4. 7 . Third is Vladislav Davankov, who scored 3. 6 , and fourth place is taken by Leonid Slutsky, with 2. 5 . The allrussian center for the study of Public Opinion provides the following exit poll data from Vladimir Putin. 87 , Nikolai Kharitonov 4. 6 , Vladislav Davankov 4. 2 , and Leonid Slutsky 3 . Obviously, the leader of the election race is clear, but the gap between the other participants is not so great, the final places may well change, especially since the rating was not compiled as a result of the actual counting of ballots, but based on surveys of citizens leaving the polling stations. Now we only receive a direct signal from the Election Commission center. That the chairman of the commission, ella pomfilova, came to the journalists, apparently, the central Election Commission is already ready to announce the first, albeit preliminary, but already official data about these elections, and lets listen to what the chairman is talking about, she is incredibly worthy, as a single, united people, understanding what these elections mean for us and for our future, everything is very worthy, despite everything. As our people deserve, our voters , well, together we are strong, we voted for russia, and now the data that after certain, now at this moment, well , maybe has changed a little during the time i i said these words in 3 minutes. 24. 4 of the protocols have been processed, now it is in progress, here are the protocols, further, preliminary results dovankov, vladislav andreevich, votes cast, i repeat once again, after processing 24, 4, 667. 448. 29. 260, that is, 2. 96 so far. Kharitonov. Nikolai mikhailovich votes cast 681 1,309 total 3. 8 . But colleagues, these are preliminary results, the counting continues, i ask all observers, all those working, to be as attentive as possible, just like our colleagues. So that we go through this period with dignity. So, these were the first preliminary data of the Election Commission center, which are based on ballots counted up to this minute, it is obvious that they will still change. Our correspondent aleksey konopko now works at cic; he is in direct contact with the studio. Alexey, good evening, but we are only that we saw that you are holding a briefing by ella pomfilova, what can you add . Yes, hello, im looking at the broadcast of the briefing with one eye, indeed we already. Know the first numbers and we know that Vladimir Putin is gaining very similar indicators to what was given by the exit poll, that is, almost 88 based on the results of processing the quarter of all ballots in the country. In general, the results are summed up quite quickly, but the simple fact is that our country is very large, and where polling stations close earlier than in kaliningrad, they are published immediately, ballots begin immediately count when this time cutoff passes at 21 00, when you can already. The final result, although i can already sign all the sheets, only then they will announce it already to predict from the experience of past years, by the next morning, by tomorrow morning they will remain uncounted, some may be a maximum of tenths of a percent of all ballots. Lets move on to the turnout, before we heard these first numbers, the Voting Results, the turnout was probably the main one, but. In the last few hours, it has already significantly exceeded the results of 2018 year and comes very close to the absolute record for the entire modern history of russia in the ninetyfirst year, when the president of the rsfsr was elected, there were 74 and a half, even a little more, now only the inperson turnout is 73 and almost a half, and the news is that there is also electronic voting , and the data even on inperson turnout is not final, ill probably name a few. Its interesting that eight villages in chukotka showed one hundred percent turnout, everyone came to vote. In moscow, a few hours before the end of voting, 5 Million People gave their votes, made their choice, and for large cities these are actually very good indicators, this is about 2 3, now, judging by what i see on the screens, both moscow and st. Petersburg already have about 70 turnout, this is necessary to say, quite a lot, and of course, i will note that. New regions voted very actively, in the dpr the turnout was more than 88 , in the lpr the final turnout was 87. 12, in the zaporozhye region more than 85, in the kherson region 83. 87. Well, perhaps its worth dwelling on the belgorod region, which in recent days has been especially suffering from terrorist attacks. Shelling, here, despite all the difficulties, the turnout exceeded 85 . Lets hear what people around the country had to say about why they came. Its quite a difficult time on the world stage, they are trying to squeeze us everywhere , to crush us, so its as if everyones voice here is important, its better to unite and Pay Attention to what we do within the country for ourselves, for our country, we dont Pay Attention to the fact that someone builds intrigues, the leader who will lead our country will set the vector along which we will go for our country, so that it worked out well, so that the sky would be blue, so that everyone would have a wonderful and good life in this world, so that the grandchildren after us. Just rejoice, the minimum possible number of violations in these elections is another distinctive feature, on the first day here in the central bank of russia received about 350 messages that. Which were released in the country, those who brought brilliant green managed to spoil one millionth of them, but it must be said that if there were few violations, then there was a lot of interference, here about electronic interference, about interference in the operation of websites, remote electronic voting, the relevant minister said. Cyber demons, there were a lot of attacks here , i think a tory will talk about this in more detail, but i want to say that we probably had the peak attack, it. Was on the first day from 13. 00 to 14. 00, that is there was probably a peak, which means the load, that means how much we recorded there, 2. 5 million requests per second went to the system, this is of course also a record in this sense, that in general the infrastructure coped with such a load, well, as for those who violated at the polling stations, the experts here have already commented. Yes, tatyana, good evening, indeed the atmosphere is very lively, very emotional, there are a lot of our colleagues here who are now discussing, and before we started our inclusion we discussed, first of all, what these numbers mean, well, here are a few conclusions, of course, we we understand that the figures are still preliminary, they will change, but one way or another, in 1918 , Vladimir Putins result was approximately 76 , now here according to all data, according to all exit polls, it is approximately 8788 who sound like this right now. Numbers, that is, it is at least 10 . What does it mean . This, of course, is incredible support, incredible unity of society around Vladimir Putin, and a powerful political signal, including a political signal to western countries, because whatever the western sanctions and now in the context of a special military operation, society is demonstrating an incredible degree of unity around president of russia, a colossal gap, not even several times, tens of times compared with. With other candidates who participated in these elections. Of course, today everyone is discussing the work of the headquarters, remembering the key milestones of this company. Let me remind you that it is the eighth. December Vladimir Putin announced in the kremlin his decision to run for another term as president of russia. On december 21, this headquarters began its work here, we also visited here often, discussed and met with the cochairs of the headquarters, they are discussing the work, which was actually extremely largescale, because signatures were collected all over the country, meetings were held in dozens of regions, including new regions of russia, which took part in president ial elections for the first time, ours. Countries and what is important to emphasize is that this is not just a meeting, this is a constructive, meaningful discussion, which was conducted by the cochairs of headquarters, trusted representatives, discussed the problems that exist in the country, and of course the question of how the country lives, how the country will live, here it is appropriate to recall the recent president ial message, where the head of state announced the launch of five new National Projects, so i would like to emphasize once again that we are waiting appearances here. For the candidate from the communist party of the Russian FederationNikolai Kharitonov, this is not the first participation in the president ial race; in 2004 he managed to get just over 13. 5 of the votes and take second place. What result are they hoping for in this one . We begin to wait for Gennady Zyuganov, the leader of the communist party of the Russian Federation, who for this campaign headed the election headquarters of Nikolai Kharitonov and the president ial candidate Nikolai Kharitonov, together they must give the first comment, here at this table, well, you see the microphones, there are so many of them that you even touch them, and also no less than 15, here we are waiting, the press conference itself will start any minute. And im looking to see if they, in fact, are going out of the window , regarding the exit polls, regarding the exit polls, here we were expecting approximately the same result, they reacted calmly to the announcement of the results, but half an hour before that we were able to talk with Gennady Zyuganov and Nikolai Kharitonov, this is what they told us about their expectations. Nikolai mikhailovich, you are probably receiving information from the eastern regions of the country, where most of the ballots have already been counted. So do you understand the trend in principle, to what extent, what result do you expect . We hope for a decent result, a respectful result from voters for our program, for my candidacy. Gennady andreevich, what results do you expect from your candidate . The result of the party in power is ours, it will determine the future fate of this strategic region. That is, in the country you are counting on second place, well, i am sure that it will not just be second place. The goal of this Election Campaign on your part was to promote. Your ideas maximum, and we managed to do it. The United States of america with its brutal muscovites from all over western europe have fallen on us, trying to drag us out economically and physically, but of course, the whole people are consolidating, and we, our party, are not on the sidelines. Well, ill clarify the position of the communist party of the Russian Federation once again , regardless of the result, as far as we know, Nikolai Kharitonov has approximately second place in this company, they believe that the goals. Communist party of the Russian Federation km, that is, they have actually encircled the earth along the equator, they are sure that many initiatives have traveled more than 4000 by air on earth were already taken into account by the president in his message to the federal assembly, which he announced recently in february, so the company, they believe, was successful, well, directly. Thank you, evgeniy, my colleague evgeniy roshkov now works at Nikolai Kharitonovs headquarters. So, at this moment, approximately a quarter of all ballots have been processed, according to the Election Commission center, Vladimir Putin takes first place, 87. 75 of russians voted for the current head of state, followed by Nikolai Kharitonov with a result of 3. 9 . On the third line. Here is very concentrated, here we are now in the very heart of the federal Electoral Center of lyanetslutsk, behind me the information Monitoring Center is very clearly visible, all information from all regions of russia is received here in real time, party members, volunteers work there, they are closely monitoring how the situation is developing, and of course , here now its very tense, as i rightly said, theres a tense working atmosphere, because everyone, of course, wants to get the first data, well, within a few hours before the actual counting of votes , Leonid Slutsky came out to reporters and held a short briefing, he talked about the Election Campaign, what they paid attention to, and how is the atmosphere in his election headquarters now . Here, at the ldpr election headquarters , the kolchuga election Monitoring Center continues to operate, a call center that receives calls from all over the country, so far we have received some irregularities. Very insignificant and there is no need to even talk about it as a violation. Observers are still in the majority say absolutely positive assessments. Indeed, the founder of the party, Vladimir Zhirinovsky , most of all, acted as candidates for the presidency of russia six times, this is really the first time when another leader acts as a candidate for the president of russia, leonid slusky, by the majority of parties on december 19 of this year he was elected as a candidate , and on february 21 he presented his program on vorobyovo gory, and the main thesis of this program is victorious and early victory in the special military operations, so this was his Election Campaign, he visited about 17 regions of russia, started from annadre from the far east to the very western regions of russia and based on all opinions, all voters, he actually drew up his election program, well, thats about it , in fact. How successful the company was and what it led to, we will find out very soon, although the preliminary results are already known, and you, tatyana, talked about them. Thank you, my colleague, dmitry kastra, works at the headquarters candidate from the ldpr party, Leonid Slutsky. And now we are transported to the headquarters of another candidate, Vladislav Dvankov, for whom this is also the first president ial election. Our correspondent ainur valiakhmetov works there, he has direct contact with the studio. Ainur, greetings, what are the moods in the camp of new people . Tatyana, good evening, but the hottest time begins at the headquarters of candidate davankov, the first results are already there, right now supporters and volunteers are starting to analyze, but in fact every election headquarters, who voted how, of course , the regions are also involved in this work, let me remind you that Vladislav Davankov has over seventy Regional Headquarters now carrying out just such analytical work, Vladislav Davankov himself, the headquarters arrived at 5 00 local time in moscow and. Arrived after voted in rotny smolensk. Lets listen to what he said. Our headquarters is in such a state of bated breath, we are already waiting for the end of the elections, we still have a whole night of watching the summing up of the results, but no, the mood is good, look, all the guys are young, this is our First Experience participation in the president ial elections, so no, everything is fine, expectations are good, i traveled through 29 regions, i just returned from smolensk, my hometown. I havent seen the School Director for 23 years, i voted right there, i just returned an hour ago, and now ill be here with my staff to wait for the election results. It must be said that work here did not stop at the moment when the polling stations were opened, because the headquarters of candidate davankov actually turned into a Situation Center where supporters and volunteers could observe in real time how the voting process was going on, here i must say that from march 14 , Vladislav Davankovs headquarters switched to roundtheclock operation, and there was a call center here where residents of different regions of russia could call and ask about the voting process. As for the candidate himself, Vladislav Davankov, the youngest candidate for the post of head of state, he is 40 years old, originally from smolensk, in big politics, despite the fact that he has only been with. During this time, the party has still had enough time accumulate a target audience; supporters of candidate dovankova are also present here. Lets listen to them. The most important thing that we took away from this company is, of course, meetings with people, numerous meetings with people, trips, work i