Margarita Simonyan congratulated the Russians against the backdrop of the preliminary election results

“Well, fellow citizens, congratulations!

From the heart, as they say) Ninety percent is a direct sentence to everyone who is trying to make us not us,” she wrote in her Telegram channel.

At the same time, on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, Simonyan noted that “we have never had such a result in a presidential election.”

“They clearly proved, showed and proved that we are actually different.

We are different than them.

And that’s all about it,” said the editor-in-chief of RT.

Earlier it was reported that self-nominated candidate Vladimir Putin was gaining 87.34% of the votes based on the results of processing 50.02% of the protocols.

Nikolai Kharitonov from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation has 4.11% of the votes.

Vladislav Davankov from New People receives 4.01% of the vote, and LDPR leader Leonid Slutsky - 3.11%.