MOSCOW ¨C President Vladimir Putin won a record post-Soviet landslide in Russia¡¯s election on Sunday, cementing his grip on power, though thousands of opponents staged a noon protest at polling stations and Western countries said the vote was neither free nor fair.
Here are some key takeaways from the election.
Putin¡¯s victory was never in doubt but its scale was new by post-Soviet standards.
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