BBC News: 普京以創(chuàng)紀錄支持率獲得連任

Russia is so huge that it stretches across 11 time zones. There are about 97,000 places where people can vote here, and more than 107 million Russians are eligible to do that. The country is a presidential federation where voters directly choose their leader. Whoever wins the majority vote wins the presidency. And the nation`s current president, Vladimir Putin, was widely expected to win another six-year term.

俄羅斯幅員遼闊，橫跨11個時區(qū)。有大約97,000個地方可以投票，超過1.07億俄羅斯人有資格投票。這個國家是總統(tǒng)聯(lián)盟，選民直接選舉他們的領導人。無論誰贏得多數(shù)票，都將贏得總統(tǒng)選舉。外界普遍預計，現(xiàn)任總統(tǒng)弗拉基米爾•普京會連任.

Mr. Putin was first appointed president in 1999. He won an election the next year and he won the next election as well. Russian leaders can only serve two consecutive terms, but Putin was appointed prime minister by his successor in 2008, and he was elected again as president in 2012. So, a win on Sunday would give him his fourth term as Russia`s leader.

1999年，普京首次被任命為總統(tǒng)。他贏得了次年的選舉，他也贏得了下次選舉。俄羅斯領導人只能連任兩屆，但普京在2008年被繼任者任命為總理，并于2012年再次當選總統(tǒng)。因此，周日的勝利將使他成為俄羅斯的第四任總統(tǒng)。

President Putin is a controversial figure on the world stage. And according to U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, Russia`s move toward an authoritarian state under Putin`s leadership, meaning that the government has become more controlling of people`s lives. Those who opposed his leadership and an election monitoring group say there have been some irregularities in this vote, like incidents that keep election observers from doing their jobs, and accusations of ballot box fraud.

普京在世界舞臺上是個有爭議的人物。根據美國中央情報局的表述，在普京領導下，俄羅斯走向了一個威權國家，這意味著政府對人民生活的控制越來越大。那些反對他的領導和選舉監(jiān)督組織的人表示，在這次投票中出現(xiàn)了一些違規(guī)行為，比如讓選舉觀察員并未監(jiān)察，以及對投票箱欺詐的指控。

Russia`s central election commission says 15 different countries have tried to hack its Website. But despite and the fact that several other candidates are challenging President Putin for his job, analysts say many Russians see him as a strongman who brought the nation to stability, after chaos followed the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. That`s part of the reason why he`s expected to stay right where he is.

俄羅斯中央選舉委員會稱有15個國家試圖侵入其網站。不過，盡管有其他幾位候選人在挑戰(zhàn)普京總統(tǒng)的職位，但分析人士說，俄羅斯人視普京為一個鐵面人物，在1991年蘇聯(lián)解體后出現(xiàn)了混亂局面，使國家走向穩(wěn)定。這就是為什么他會一直勝任總統(tǒng)的部分原因。