Russian leader Vladimir Putin was slated to win presidential elections with 87 percent of the vote, state-run exit polls showed Sunday, following a ballot that included no real opposition candidates.
The government-run VTsIOM pollster showed the 71-year-old Russian leader had won the election -- also being held in occupied regions of Ukraine -- after polls closed in Russia's western-most region of Kaliningrad at 1700 GMT.
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