The regions of the North Caucasus showed a very high percentage of votes for Vladimir Putin in the presidential elections of the Russian Federation, held on March 15-17. Thus, according to regional election commissions, in Chechnya they reported 98.9%.

The day before, more than a thousand people held a rally and march in Tbilisi under the slogan “Enough of Putin, lies, war, repression.” People also carried posters with the inscriptions “Freedom for political prisoners”, “Down with the Tsar” and others.

Based on the results of processing 100% of the protocols, the current President Vladimir Putin received 98,99% of the votes in Chechnya. This was reported by the regional election commission.

On the third day of the presidential elections in the Russian Federation, one of the maximum voter turnout rates was recorded in Chechnya - more than 93%. The state channel ChGTRK “Grozny” reported that no violations were identified during the voting process.

From early morning, a large line of people wishing to vote in the Russian presidential elections lined up outside the Russian Embassy in Yerevan. According to the Russian consulate, there are almost 4,600 Russian citizens in the capital of Armenia who are ready to fill out the ballot.

The overall voter turnout in the Russian presidential elections on the first day of voting on March 15 was 36.5%. More than half of voters voted in 11 regions. Among them were Chechnya (56%) and Kabardino-Balkaria (53%). The leaders are the DPR (69%), Kherson region (69%), and Belgorod region (66%).

In Karachay-Cherkessia, a woman poured a dye into a ballot box at one of the polling stations during voting in the presidential election. A criminal case has been opened, the Investigative Committee reports.

Immediately after the transfer of the co-chairman of the Memorial Center, political prisoner Oleg Orlov, to the Moscow pre-trial detention center-5 “Vodnik”, he was offered to sign a contract to participate in a “special military operation”. This was reported by the Memorial Human Rights Protection Center.

In 2023, the regions of the North Caucasian Federal District were visited by 9.3 million tourists, which is 17.7% higher than the level of 2022. This was stated by the Presidential Envoy to the North Caucasian Federal District Yuri Chaika.

In order to increase turnout, the heads of budgetary organizations in Crimea force their subordinates to go to polling stations for the voting procedure. Today is the beginning of voting in the presidential elections of the Russian Federation, the Tribunal reported. Crimean episode." Observers of the “Crimean episode” received evidence of this from Simferopol, Bakhchisarai, Kerch, Saki, Sovetsky and Krasnogvardeisky districts.