INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
newspaper Izvestiareported Monday, citing election authorities.While regular voting in the presidential race is due to take place between
residential areas.Early voting is scheduled to end on March 14, Izvestia said.Critics have said that extended voting periods, which include
early voting, make it easier to commit voter fraud, as it becomes harder for monitors and poll workers to notice irregularities.Vladimir
Putin, who has been in power as either president or prime minister since 2000, is widely expected to win his fifth term in the March 15-17
race.Russia controls roughly one-fifth of neighboring Ukraine's territory, including the Crimea peninsula, which it annexed in 2014, and
