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Article: 1/4tMOSCOW (AP) _ Dmitry Medvedev has won Russia's presidential election with more than 70 percent of the vote, according to final official results released Friday. 1/4tRussia's Central Election Commission said Medvedev won Sunday's election with 70.28 percent of the vote. Turnout was 69.81 percent. 1/4tCommunist Party chief Gennady Zyuganov trailed with 17.72 percent, while ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky had 9.35 percent and little-known candidate Andrei Bogdanov captured 1.3 percent. 1/4tMedvedev's landslide victory was virtually assured by a blessing from Vladimir Putin, the popular incumbent who said he would retain clout by becoming Medvedev's prime minister. Medvedev has repeatedly pledged to pursue Put_ ef policies. 1/4tPutin captured about 53 percent of the vote in 2000 and won a second four-year term in 2004 with more than 71 percent, just above Medvedev's result. But the turnout in these elections _ 60 and 64 percent, respectively _ was significantly lower than the hefty 70 percent on Sunday. 1/4tWhile Putin won about 49.5 million votes in the 2004 election, Medvedev was backed by more than 52.5 million voters, according to the final tally released Friday by Central Election Commission. 1/4tMedvedev ty leader. He said he would discuss possible "consequences" with Beck. 1/4tChancellor Angela Merkel, whose conservative Christian Democrats govern Germany in a tense "grand coalition" with Beck's center-left party, has accused the Social Democrats of breaking promises to steer clear of The Left and suggested that will be an issue in next year's national election campaign. 1/4tIn Hesse, which includes Germany's financial center, Frankfurt, the two parties fought to a bitter stalemate in a January electmber Yevgeny Kolyushin harshly criticized campaign violations and official efforts to boost turnout on the election day and demanded a recount. 1/4tThe commission shrugged off the criticism and endorsed Medvedev's election.
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