Putin to Win Presidency in First Round, State Pollster Says
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will win the March 4 presidential election in the first round with 52 percent of the vote, according to an opinion poll by the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion.
Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov would get 11 percent and Vladimir Zhirinovsky of the nationalist Liberal Democrat Party would get nine percent, according to the survey of 1,600 Russians. The poll was conducted Jan. 14-15 and the margin of error was 3.4 percentage points, the organization, known as VTsIOM, said on its website.