MOSCOW: A senior Russian election official announced Sunday that Sergei Sobyanin had won a "convincing" reelection as Moscow's mayor, a vote the Russian opposition said was predetermined.

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"The winner is unequivocally already known. All of us here in the hall congratulate Sergei Semyonovich (Sobyanin) on such a convincing victory," the official, Nikolay Bulayev, said in an elections centre, according to comments carried by Russian state-run news agencies.