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Vladimir Putin secured 72% of the vote to win his second full four-year term as President of Russia. The election took place on the 14th of March 2004 under a legal framework requiring candidates to collect two million signatures for registration.
Sergey Glazyev ran as an independent candidate after losing a power struggle within the Rodina party while Oleg Malyshkin represented the Liberal Democratic Party following Vladimir Zhirinovsky's decision not to run again. Irina Khakamada emerged as Putin's most outspoken critic despite losing her State Duma seat in 2003 and Nikolay Kharitonov stood as the Communist Party candidate even though he was not a member of that party.
State-funded Channel One Russia dedicated more than four hours of news coverage to Putin in the month prior to the election while the second-most covered candidate received only 21 minutes of primetime news on the same channel. State-funded TV Russia gave Putin nearly two hours of primetime news with similarly positive tones and Glazeyev received just four minutes of coverage there.
Observers representing the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe cited abuses of government resources during the campaign including bias in state media and instances of ballot stuffing on election day. The ad hoc Committee by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe stated that elections lacked elements of a genuine democratic contest while observers from the Commonwealth of Independent States recognized the election as free, democratic and fair.
Turnout reached 92.3% in Chechnya and 91.25% in North Ossetia which stood in stark contrast to the general turnout of only 64.39% across Russia. Election officials in Grozny acknowledged filling in several thousand ballots for Putin and Moscow Times reported these admissions regarding the republic's capital.