“I came to see the voting process.

I saw a fairly large turnout at the polling stations where we were.

It seems to me that this process in Russia is more democratic than in France, for example,” international observer from France Christian Arsene Robert-Noël Rho told RT.

His colleague from Kenya, Ezekiel Kanagi Mutee, noted that the voting process overall was going well - polling stations opened on time.

The international observer emphasized that he was surprised by the opportunity to vote not only by coming to the polling station, but also online.

The turnout for the Russian presidential elections as of 15:41 Moscow time on the first day of voting was 20.60%.