Vladimir Putin 2018 presidential campaign

Vladimir Putin for President

Campaigned for	2018 Russian presidential election
Candidate	Vladimir Putin Incumbent President of Russia (2000–2008 and 2012–present) Prime Minister of Russia (1999–2000 and 2008–2012) Director of Federal Security Service (1998–1999)
Affiliation	Independent
Status	Announced: 6 December 2017 Official nominee: 26 December 2017 Registered candidate: 6 February 2018 Won election: 18 March 2018
Headquarters	36 New Arbat Avenue Moscow[1]
Key people	Co-chairs: Yelena Shmelyova Sergey Kogogin Alexander Rumyantsev Chief of staff: Andrey Yarin Press Secretary: Andrey Kondrashov
Receipts	400,030,934.98 roubles[2]
Slogan	(Strong President, Strong Russia)
Website	putin2018.ru

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The 2018 presidential campaign of Vladimir Putin was announced on 6 December 2017, during Putin's speech at the GAZ automobile plant.^[3] He is the 4th and incumbent President of Russia; previously he was the 33rd Prime Minister of Russia, 2nd President of Russia and 4th Federal Security Service Director.

This campaign is his fourth. Prior to this he successfully participated in elections in 2000, 2004 and 2012.

Vladimir Putin had consistently scored higher than 40% in opinion polls since the last presidential election. According to an opinion poll conducted in December 2017 by Gallup International, if Putin was not to be on the ballot, 46% wouldn't have known for whom to vote and 19% would have made the ballot paper invalid.^[4] Putin was re-elected as the President of the Russian Federation on 18 March 2018.