MOSCOW, March 5 (Itar-Tass) — Russia’s Central Election Commission announced the candidate standing as of 06:00 a.m. Moscow time, when as many as 95.81 percent of votes were counted:
Vladimir Putin – 64.24 percent;
Gennady Zyuganov – 17.14 percent;
Mikhail Prokhorov – 7.46 percent;
Vladimir Zhirinovsky – 6.24 percent;
Sergei Mironov – 3.80 percent.