Global Times
Vladimir Putin will reclaim the Kremlin's top job by winning two-thirds of the vote in a March presidential election, the last major poll before the vote showed on Friday.
Prime Minister Putin's aides hope a big win in the March 4 presidential election will take the sting out of an urban protest movement which casts him as an authoritarian leader.
Putin will easily avoid a humiliating second round runoff but on the eve of six more years in the Kremlin, Russia's 59-year-old leader faces a crisis of confidence in his rule, Russia's biggest independent pollster said.
Putin will win 63-66 percent of the vote, far ahead of his closest rival, Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov, who will win 15 percent of the vote, said Lev Gudkov, the director of the Levada Center pollster.
"We shall have a weak authoritarian national leader," Gudkov said. "Even Putin's victory in the first round will not change the situation."
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