Russian voters were hitting the polls on Friday morning as a three-day presidential election that is all but certain to deliver Vladimir Putin another six-year term in power kicked off without any real competition. Voting began in the world’s largest country by area when polling stations opened in the Russian far east. The election in the country that stretches across 11 time zones will last until Sunday evening, when the last polling stations close in Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea at 8 pm (1800 GMT). The first forecasts are expected immediately afterwards. Russian state pollsters have already…