Putin secures another six years as Russian President - Reuters

Vladimir Putin has won the Russian election in a landslide election, as reported by Reuters.

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Putin will be Russia's President until 2024 with his latest election win, with Putin winning over 75% of the vote. Vladimir's greatest opponent, opposition leader Alexei Navalny was barred from running in the election, and Putin's closest challenger obtained around 13% of the vote on incomplete results. Russia's Central Election Commision recognized 'irregularities' in the results, but the CEC is widely expected to declare the results legitimate. Putin has been in power as either the President or Prime Minister of Russia since 2000, and his clinching of the latest election has markets nervous about his increasingly anti-West stance and the ongoing political gridlock with the UK and Europe over the alleged attempted assassination of a former KGB spy in Great Britain.