Tonight the projected landslide election victory in Russia

Vladimir Putin on track to win another six years.

Protests amid what's being called record turnout, dissidents throwing

Molotov cocktails pouring dye in ballot boxes.

Putin saying his win means the country is united behind him, but critics allege the vote was

raped.

Our Kir Simmons questioning Putin late tonight.

Mr President, is this what you call democracy?

The police capturing a suspected coast-to-coast murder in a shootout accused of killing

a police officer on a highway in New Mexico just

days after allegedly murdering an EMT in South Carolina and parts of

Pennsylvania sheltering in place again this morning one day after a killing spree there left

three dead. This carjacking victim speaking out today. I was sitting in my car and

someone banged on my window and then he pulled the gun out.

And powerful volcanic eruptions in Iceland

triggering a state of emergency, stunning images of lava

flowing toward towns.

And winter is not over yet the dangerous cold

snap about to send temperatures plunging and on this St. Patrick's day the

country has gone green. This is NBC Nightly News.

Good evening I'm Gotti Schwartz. Tonight in Moscow Vladimir Putin is

celebrating what appears to be a huge victory.

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