Putin set for Kremlin return

Vladimir Putin appears all but certain to return to the Kremlin in tomorrow’s Russian presidential election, but he will find himself in charge of a country far more willing to challenge him.

An unprecedented wave of massive protests showed a substantial portion of the population was fed up with the political entrenchment engineered by Mr Putin since he first became president in 2000, and police are already preparing for the possibility of post-election unrest in Moscow.