Most Russians intending to vote for Vladimir Putin in Sunday's election say stability is at the root of their faith in their candidate – though many young voters believe it's time for a change of leader. Putin, 65, is expected to win a fourth term in office with 69 percent of the vote, according to the latest survey by a state-run pollster. Reuters correspondents and photographers who travelled around the country talking to voters ahead of the March 18 election found nothing to contradict expectation of an emphatic Putin victory. Here: Marina Kalinichenko, 54, a maths teacher and supporter of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, poses for a picture in Yevpatoriya, Crimea, February 21, 2018. “As Mark Twain said, 'if voting made a difference, they wouldn't let us do it'. I really do support my candidate, but I also realise that it's the oligarchs that truly decide, who becomes president”. said Kalinichenko. (Photo by Pavel Rebrov/Reuters)





Anastasia Shevchenko, 38, head of the election campaign team for presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak, poses for a picture in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, February 13, 2018. “I want change, of course. First of all, in how this country is run. I hope that something will change. That's why I completely support my candidate's programme”, said Shevchenko. “But at the same time, I completely understand that these elections don't decide anything. I just want new people in our politics”. (Photo by Sergey Pivovarov/Reuters)





Vitaly Zubenko, 45, lawyer and supporter of presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky, poses for a picture in Stavropol, Russia, February 19, 2018. “When the people in power don't change, it's the foundation for corruption, it's what corruption needs to remain undefeated”, said Zubenko. “We see that for the past four years, real incomes have been falling. A few people might have seen things improve, but overall, the population, the country, business, entrepreneurs, all economic structures, they're just about surviving. Things are getting worse and worse, unfortunately... We have to change the constitution, so that power never again finds itself in the hands of a single person”. (Photo by Eduard Korniyenko/Reuters)





Maxim Gubsky, 21, student and supporter of presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky, poses for a picture in Stavropol, Russia, February 20, 2018. “I don't expect Putin to change things, and history proves this to be true”, said Gubsky. “Little has changed over the past twenty years... to see progress in my life, we need a new president, new ambitions and new decisions”. (Photo by Eduard Korniyenko/Reuters)





Alexei Gruk, 45, mechanic and supporter of presidential candidate Pavel Grudinin, poses for a picture in St. Petersburg, Russia, January 31, 2018. “The most important thing for me is that our foreign policy stays the same”, said Gruk. “To hell with the sanctions… So what if they don’t bring foreign stuff here anymore? As if that means we have to give up. I don't care”. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)





Vitaly Bespalov, 26, journalist and supporter of presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak, poses for a picture, showing a tattoo depicting Sobchak on his arm, in St. Petersburg, Russia, February 14, 2018. “I am 26. Eighteen of those years, all of my conscious life, I have lived under a single president”, said Bespalov. “I have been waiting too long for change”. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)





Grigory Kulikovskikh, 26, IT specialist and supporter of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, poses for a picture in Moscow, Russia, February 10, 2018. Kulikovskikh is calling for a boycott of the upcoming presidential election. “This is not a country of the future, it’s a country stuck in the past. I can't visualise the future right now”, said Kulikovskikh. “Most people don't care. The absolute majority, they just don't think about things. They're asleep. They don't care whether it's Putin or Navalny – they need to be woken up. Then change will really happen”. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Andrei Lukinykh, 46, engineer and supporter of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, poses for a picture in Yevpatoriya, Crimea, February 20, 2018. “I am going to vote, because I want stability. As the saying goes, you don't change your horses when crossing a river (at a turning point, during a difficult time)”, said Lukinykh. “Unlike the others, my candidate can provide the stability that's needed”. (Photo by Pavel Rebrov/Reuters)





Tanzurun Darisyu, 51, supporter of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin and head of a private farm located in Kara-Charyaa area in the south of Kyzyl town, the administrative centre of the Republic of Tyva (Tuva region), poses for a picture inside her yurt in Southern Siberia, Russia, February 14, 2018. “We, the Arat people, farmers, need to be able to be confident about what tomorrow will look like. We need this in order to expand and develop our farmsteads”. said Darisyu. (Photo by Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)





Alexander Reshetnyak, 42, Cossack ataman and supporter of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, poses for a picture in Stavropol, Russia, February 16, 2018. “Of course, among the candidates right now, in my opinion no one can compete with our current president”, said Reshetnyak. “There's no alternative. So yes, maybe these are elections without a genuine choice”. (Photo by Eduard Korniyenko/Reuters)





Yulia Dyuzheva, 22, student and supervisor of the “SUPERPUTIN” exhibition and supporter of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, poses for a picture in Moscow, Russia, January 14, 2018. “I'd draw your attention to the colossal support of young people for the current government. As a representative of the younger generation, I can say that for us, young Russians, all the doors are open. Everyone is able to grab the opportunities presented and make the most of themselves, in whatever town or region”, said Dyuzheva. “For me, Russia's current leader is taking the country down a very rational path, a path based on justice, openness, one which places a stress on values and traditions, and takes a very clear position on the global stage”. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Vasily Slonov, 48, artist and supporter of presidential candidate Pavel Grudinin, poses for a picture inside his workshop in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, February 8, 2018. “I don't think that this will be Putin's final term in office. In fact I see a sort of messianic energy in Putin”, he said. “He’s not just any other person, but something of an instrument in God's hands. He's not simply a politician”. (Photo by Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)





Natalia Dementieva, 44, an accountant who is currently unemployed and supporter of presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak, poses for a picture in Moscow, Russia, January 14, 2018. “(Sobchak) speaks the truth, openly. She doesn’t lie. She raises issues which are taboo under our government. The next generation to rule this country were born between 1982 and 1987. There’s a lot of them and they don’t remember what it was like in the Soviet Union. So they’re less afraid”. Sobchak is expected to garner 2 percent of the vote, according to a March 9 poll by the state-run Russian Public Opinion Research Centre. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Andrei Vorontsov, 42, ataman of a local Cossack society and supporter of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, poses for a picture in Mikhaylovsk town in Stavropol Region, Russia, February 21, 2018. “It's hard to say what the future will look like”, said Vorontsov. “The way I see it, people can make assumptions, but it's God that decides. The way He rules it, that's how things will be”. (Photo by Eduard Korniyenko/Reuters)