Russians cast their ballots on Sunday in an election that's widely expected to hand President Vladimir Putin a fourth term. Our correspondent Aljosa Milenkovic has more from Moscow.

ALJOSA MILENKOVIC MOSCOW "I'm in Moscow at voting station in Bakhrushina street. It is relatively close to the Red Square and Kremlin and this is just one out of 92,000 voting stations that are distributed across this huge country. Russian elections started in Chukotka Peninsula 9 hours before they've started here in Moscow. Those will be finished 3 hours after they are finished in Moscow, in the far west Kaliningrad enclave. 108 million voters are eligible to cast their ballots and to elect a new president of Russia. But if it is to believe opinion polls, a landslide victory of the current president Vladimir Putin is expected in the first round. According to those, he should get around 70% of the votes. Communist leader Pavel Grudinin runs as second in those polls with just around 7%, while political infant Vladimir Zhirinovsky could expect around 5-6% of the votes. First unofficial results we could expect as early as one hour after the voting is closed in Moscow, while the official ones, based upon over 90% of the votes are expected something around 3'o clock Monday morning, Moscow time."