According to preliminary results of “Vote Abroad” exit polls, the current President of Russia Vladimir Putin has won 8% of the votes in Almaty. This is the worst result in Central Asia and one of the lowest in the world.
Along with the 8% of voters who supported Putin’s candidacy, Russian citizens in Almaty also voted for Vladislav Davankov (69%), who won many votes from those Russians who wanted to vote for anyone but Putin, while 14% of voters claimed that they had damaged their voting bulletins; 7% of the people refused to talk to researchers and comment on any...