Now that its obvious the West is setting up Russia for a war on the flimsiest of pretenses and with great haste- they need a strong leader at the helm -.it probably boosted Putin to over 90%
His coolness makes the hysterical undiplomatic Theresa May look like an irate school principal
So we might say Britain and the US are meddling in the Russian election
The US openly interfered in the 1996 Russian presidential elections. It was even boasted about on the cover of Time magazine.