Some 82 thousand voters have come to the overseas polling stations to vote for a new Russian president, First Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Denisov told journalists.
Overseas voters have been much more active this time than in December. 82 thousand Russian citizens have already cast their ballots, compared to 21 thousand votes registered in the December election, Andrei Denisov said at the meeting of the Russian central election commission.
Voter turnout in Lithuania exceeds 22%
As of 3 p.m. Moscow time, over 22% of eligible voters took to the polling stations in Lithuania today to cast their ballots in the Russian presidential election.
This came in an announcement by Marina Biryukova, press-secretary of the Russian embassy in Lithuania.
Some 13.5 thousand eligible Russian voters currently live in this ex-Soviet country.
(RIAN)