On March 16, the Head of the Office of the Rais of Tatarstan Asgat Safarov voted in the Russian presidential elections.
Four candidates are participating in the Russian presidential elections: Vladislav Davankov (from the New People party), Leonid Slutsky (from the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia), Nikolay Kharitonov (from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation) and the current head of state Vladimir Putin (as a self-nominated candidate).