Russia's Central Election Commission on Wednesday released the final results of the March 4 presidential election, saying that incumbent Prime Minister Vladimir Putin won the election with 63.6 percent of the votes. Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov was second with 17 percent of the votes. The independent, billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, won 8 percent. About 6 percent of the votes went to Liberal Democratic leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky and 4 percent to A Just Russia leader Sergei Mironov. With this result, Putin will be inaugurated as Russia’s president in May, reclaiming the office that he ceded to Dmitry Medvedev for four years ago.