Several protesters attacked voting centers on the first day of the 3-day presidential election in Russia yesterday. Three of them poured green paint on the ballot boxes in Moscow, the Karachay-Circassian Republic, and Rostov; another one set fire to a voting booth in Moscow; and a molotov cocktail was thrown at a voting center in St. Petersburg. All the attackers were detained.

It is predicted that Vladimir Putin will come in first in the race among other candidates: Russian Liberal Democratic Party Chairman Leonid Slutskiy, Russian Communist Party deputy Nikolay Kharitonov, and New People’s Party Deputy Chairman Vladislav Davankov.