She announced her decision to quit United Russia in an expletive-rich radio interview earlier this month.
Russian politicas are going through a change, but United Russia is still the dominant force.
You had Chechnya for example register 99% of their votes back then for United Russia.
Preliminary election results give Putin's United Russia Party more than 60 percent of the vote.
Even so, Filin said she voted for United Russia because Putin is its top candidate.
His party, United Russia, will nominate him as their main man on Sunday, local press reported.
He said his move was a voluntary act to shield the party, United Russia, from scandal.
Dmitry Peskov, his spokesman, has tried to draw a distinction between Mr Putin and United Russia.
United Russia's chances in December's election for the Duma, the lower house of parliament, are less clear.
Anastasia Volochkova said United Russia's bosses duped her into signing a letter condemning imprisoned tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
For Russians who have had it up to their eyeballs with United Russia, the fix was in.
At a voting station in a central Moscow school, Elvira Kryuchkova said she voted for United Russia.
United Russia's official result was less than 50%, down from 64% at the last election, four years ago.
Last December's parliamentary election delivered near-total control of the Duma and its committees to the pro-Putin United Russia party.
Vladimir Putin was nominated by his United Russia Party to retake the controls in the Kremlin in March 2012.
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United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves.
Moreover, according to the data, 49% of Russians relate positively to United Russia.
The alleged fraud is still under investigation, but hard to say whether anything will ever be proven against United Russia.
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Opposition parties claim that they could have won even more seats had the United Russia party not committed foul play.
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Although Mr Putin has distanced himself from United Russia, his promises and speeches are now met with the same indifference.
Mr Putin is also backed by a parliament that is fully under the control of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party.
Protesters charged that United Russia forced party staff at state governments to vote in favor of the party on Dec. 4.
He would also become the new president of United Russia, the most powerful political party in the country by a landslide.
Consolidation of power in the hands of the ruling United Russia party has led to the growing apathy of the population.
He is a leading member of the North Ossetian branch of United Russia and is regarded as a staunch Kremlin loyalist.
Putin's United Russia Party grabbed a little more than 64 percent of the vote in an election that saw heavy turnout.
In reality, however, the Russian parliament was long ago turned into a rubber-stamping body dominated by Mr Putin's United Russia party.
He can turn a phrase, and stuck the memorable "party of crooks and thieves" label on the ruling United Russia Party.
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The ruling party, United Russia, lost a quarter of its seats in the vote - a big slump in its support.
For that reason, Mr Gudkov would have kept his seat if the vote had been secret, says a United Russia deputy.
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