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MOSCOW - in Moscow and the west of Russia at 8 o’clock local time (6 hours Belgian time) has opened the voice offices for the presidential elections. That is purely a formality for candidate Dmitri Medvedev, who by current president Vladimir Poetin has been indicated succeed him. Because Russia extends himself concerning several time areas, the voice offices in the east of the country opened already nine hours rather. Almost 450,000 police constables have been used guarantee the security around the 96,000 voice offices. There are four candidates Vladimir succeed Poetin. But omnipresently in the media Dmitri Medvedev, are which the support gets of Poetin and it is presented by him as a guarantee on stability. He gets 60 up to 80 per cent of the votes probably. He has already promised that Poetin are premier become. The three other candidates have been in fact reduced to observers. It concerns the Communist Guennadi Ziouganov, the ultranationalist who stands near the Kremlin Vladimir Jirinovski and pro-Europeaan the Andreï Bogdanov. According to the surveys they come scarcely to 9-16 per cent, 7-14 per cent and a percent of the votes. Several other president candidates of the opposition got of the molar commission no authorisation to take part in the elections