High level appearances at the Central Election Commission were explained by several reasons. As deputy chairman of the commission Nikolai Bulaev told RBC, the turnout, in particular, increased due to the fact that young people actively voted in these elections, which the CEC managed to attract to the polls. Bulaev did not specify how many representatives of the “youth” voted. In addition, Bulaev noted, the turnout was high due to the fact that “both the executive and legislative authorities showed maximum respect for the voter and tried to convince him that his vote is important,” besides, now, according to the deputy chairman of the commission, “people have begun to think more about your future"; Bulaev did not name the reasons for this.
The highest turnout was recorded in the first presidential elections on June 12, 1991. Then 79,498,240 people took part in the voting - 74.66% of the total number of citizens eligible to vote. The least activity was observed in the 2004 presidential elections, when the turnout was 69,572,177 people (64.38%).
In 2018, the number of voters in Russia amounted to 107.2 million people, including 1.5 million Russians who are abroad. The most voters - 109.8 million - were included in the lists in the 2012 elections, the least - 106.4 million - in 1991.
In these elections, residents of Crimea, which became part of Russia in March 2014, voted for the first time. Turnout in Crimea by 18:00 was 63.86%, in Sevastopol - 65.69%. Previously, Crimeans voted only in the elections of State Duma deputies in 2016: then by 18:00 the turnout on the peninsula was 42.37%. In the 2010 Ukrainian presidential elections, turnout in Crimea was 63.3%.
Judging by the Central Election Commission turnout data as of 18:00 Moscow time, the most active voters were in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (84.86%), Tyva (83.36%) and Chechnya (78.11%).
In the presidential elections in 2012, as of 18:00, the highest turnout was recorded in Chechnya - 94.89% of voters. Then a turnout of more than 80% was recorded in two more regions - in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (85.29%) and in Karachay-Cherkessia (80.85%). In another eight regions, more than 70% of residents had voted by 18:00 - in Tyva, Mordovia, Chukotka, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Tyumen region, Tatarstan and Kemerovo region. The lowest turnout in 2012 was recorded in the Astrakhan region (47.14%), in the Stavropol Territory (47.47%) and in the Vladimir region (47.79%).
Turnout in capitals
Cities with a population of over a million have traditionally shown turnout below the national average. Chairman of the Moscow City Election Commission Valentin Gorbunov said that the turnout in the capital throughout the day was 4-6% higher than the results of the previous presidential elections for similar periods of time: as of 18:00, the turnout in the capital was 52.91%.
In the 2012 presidential elections, the final turnout in the elections in Moscow was 58.34%. The capital ranked 75th among regions in terms of voter turnout. 3.75% of Moscow voters voted at home, 3.97% using absentee ballots. As of 18:00 on March 4, 2012, turnout in the capital was 49.12%, the smallest was in three districts: Presnensky (44.3%), Beskudnikovsky (44.44%) and Vnukovo (45.01% ).
In St. Petersburg, by 18:00 the turnout reached 55.47% (62.27% of voters there voted in the last presidential elections), according to this indicator the city took 49th place in the country. There were 6.02% “homeworkers”, 2.45% at the place of stay.
An increase in turnout was also recorded at polling stations abroad. In total, the CEC registered over 1.5 million voters, of which 35 thousand voted early. Voting was organized at 394 polling stations in 144 countries.
In the Russian presidential elections held in 2012, 1.79 million people abroad had the right to vote, and 25.24% took part in them then (442 thousand, TASS data with reference to the Central Election Commission).
“In some polling stations, voter activity has doubled. But the most typical figure for the increase in turnout is 12-15%,” said CEC member Vasily Likhachev on March 18 (quoted by Interfax).
An increase in turnout was recorded in many countries. Thus, over 5.5 thousand people voted in Uzbekistan, Sputnik Uzbekistan reported. The turnout doubled compared to the results in the 2012 elections and five times compared to the figure that was recorded in the 2016 State Duma elections, the embassy told the agency.
In the USA and Great Britain, countries with which Russia’s relations are in crisis, voting also took place. In the middle of the day there was a queue to enter the polling station at the embassy in London, Interfax reported. There were up to 300 people in it. Opposite the embassy, a demonstration took place throughout the day, organized by businessman Yevgeny Chichvarkin, who called for a boycott of the elections (he reported on the progress of the action on Instagram).
In Ukraine, Russian citizens were unable to take part in the Russian presidential elections. On Friday, March 16, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine announced that it would not allow citizens to enter voting stations organized at the embassy in Kiev, as well as at the consulates in Lviv, Kharkov and Odessa.
As the Kremlin wanted
RBC sources close to the Kremlin, RBC, say that the presidential administration will consider a good turnout following the election results to be 65% - no lower than in 2012. Judging by how turnout grew throughout voting day, the final results should satisfy the Kremlin, said political consultant Dmitry Fetisov.
The high turnout is due to the politicization of society, he is sure. Active information about the elections, together with international scandals, convinced Russians of the importance of the elections. Particularly striking in this sense were the scandals with the International Olympic Committee, which banned the Russian team from participating in the Olympics, and the attempted murder of former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal in the UK; British authorities believe that Moscow may be behind the murder. “At the same time, each of the population groups found its own motive: supporters of Vladimir Putin heard the thesis about the importance of turnout as a criterion for the legitimacy of elections, while opponents of the current president had the opportunity to protest him by voting for Pavel Grudinin [candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation] and Ksenia Sobchak [candidate from party “Civil Initiative”],” said Fetisov.
The main reason for the high turnout is the very active work of the authorities to inform citizens, says political scientist Abbas Gallyamov. “If it weren’t for the organizational work, the turnout would not have exceeded 50%. Still, the elections were uninteresting in terms of content,” he told RBC. There was no intrigue in the election campaign and the elections themselves, the political scientist says: the candidates did not offer anything essentially new and non-standard, and the winner of the elections was known in advance. “Usually such things have a big impact on turnout,” Gallyamov noted.
According to Fetisov, Russians were also motivated to go to the polls by the “image of an external enemy” that the government has created in recent months, declaring interference in Russian state sovereignty. Political scientist Evgeny Minchenko agrees with this: however, he considered the image of oppositionist Alexei Navalny, who called for a boycott of the elections, to be an external enemy necessary for the presidential campaign. His activity and the fueled conflict with the West led to an increase in turnout, Minchenko is convinced.
ELECTIONS 2012
2012 ELECTIONS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RF
Elections 2012 in Russia
March 4, 2012
Holy instructions to voters,
but without any pre-election recommendations
March 4th in the great democratic holy Rus'
national elections for the President of the Russian Federation
piously a true believer and holyly observing the Covenants of Christ,
truly righteous and godly Orthodox layman V.V. Putin
The full text approved at the XII Congress of the popularly beloved All-Russian political party “United Russia” with the inspired nomination of their party founder and leader, forever truly approved by the Russian Orthodox Church, always and in everything the righteous and pious All-Russian servant of God Vladimir Putin, as a candidate for the post of President of the Russian Federation.
Now, under the pressure of the righteous anger of the people, who do not want to be continued to be endlessly trampled and robbed, the thieves’ vertical power structure built by Putin is staggering.
Therefore, now throughout Rus' there is a powerful mobilization of all natural slaves from peripheral factory workers to protect the power interests of the master.
Helpful serfs believe that the more they grovel at demonstrations organized by the authorities, the more the master will reward them. Due to their natural weakness of mind, they cannot understand that slaves are always needed by the master not for the master's gifts, but for every possible plunder. And if the master suddenly gives the servant a ruble now, then the steward will rip it off later. After Putin's election, the people are guaranteed a terrible rise in all prices, taxes and levies.
But if the Lord punished the poor Russians for grave sins with crippled unreasonableness, nothing can be done - a lackey is not a monkey, a person cannot come from him.
The upcoming elections will show what is more common among the current Russian people - human intelligence or the eternal mass servile stupidity in Rus'.
Even though our Russia is great, there is no one to choose.
The opposition contenders for power are no less crooks than the current rulers, except perhaps even worse with their brains turned in different directions (that’s why they stick out on the political sidelines).
Those who are not familiar with it vote for the current opposition, and those who know the opposition better do not take it seriously.
Today, in our great democratic holy Rus', every Russian is honest, as long as he has nothing to steal. At the first opportunity, everyone steals and robs their neighbors - from locksmiths, cleaners and ordinary policemen to prosecutors, generals and the most important ministers. You choose anyone - first, for show off, he will ride a tram a couple of times with the people, and then he will again go with flashing lights and begin to steal more than ever.
Before the elections, everyone, waving flags, promises a lot, after the elections, they steal a lot. And no matter what promising personalities you choose to power, you will still steal without measure.
Therefore, the current elections among various Russian "parties" are similar to the fussy choice of citizens of the Russian Federation in the early 1990s, to which "investment fund" to hand over their unfortunate fraudulent voucher for greater profitability. Since the vouchers handed over to various “investment funds”, no one has received any return. Those who organized these “investment funds” successfully plundered everything donated by the people, becoming billionaires.
Nowadays, no matter who you give your vote to or don’t go to the polls at all, the ordinary people, for the most part also dishonest to the core, will get nothing from the authorities...
It's easy to ask Santa Claus.
But where can Santa Claus find a decent president in today’s great democratic holy Rus'?
And you won’t get far on a sweet pair of these Russian “deer”, and all the children in the world will remain New Year no gifts.
Therefore, the tandem will be elected again, and ordinary Russians will have to finally give up all hopes of improving life in Russia.
In Rus', the current rapid extinction of the people (currently 1.2 million per year) and the mass exodus abroad of the most intelligent (in last years 2.5 million per year), the replacement of native Russians by increasingly numerous newcomers, and in a few years the collapse of Russia will take place into 6-8 independent parts.
Estimated map of Russia after its collapse until 2021 (more likely in 2016)
(according to the forecast of the Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences named after M.V. Keldysh)
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A map of the former Russian Federation in 2016, according to smart, pragmatic Russian analysts who recently happily fled abroad with their pockets well-filled.
A tentative map of the territory of Russia in 2020 according to true Russian jingoists from the back alley.
Like a true gambler, try to tell your fortune using these three cards.
If you can correctly guess the right card, it will be easier for you to figure out what is the wiser thing to do next in the Russian card game with the current cheaters, so as not to be left in the cold.
Putin and Medvedev know the correct card, but they keep it up their sleeves and they won’t tell you - you will have to guess only on your own.
However, try to find a hint in
Opposition communist madhouse,
supported a large number Russians:
The indestructible holy unity of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is the guarantee of the great spiritual future of the people of Russia
The full text approved at the XII Congress of the popularly beloved All-Russian political party “United Russia” with the inspired nomination of their party founder and leader, forever truly approved by the Russian Orthodox Church, always and in everything the righteous and pious All-Russian servant of God Vladimir Putin, as a candidate for the post of President of the Russian Federation.
Therefore, now throughout Rus' there is a powerful mobilization of all natural slaves from peripheral factory workers to protect the power interests of the master.
Helpful serfs believe that the more they grovel at demonstrations organized by the authorities, the more the master will reward them. Due to their natural weakness of mind, they cannot understand that slaves are always needed by the master not for the master's gifts, but for every possible plunder. And if the master suddenly gives the servant a ruble now, then the steward will rip it off later. After Putin's election, the people are guaranteed a terrible rise in all prices, taxes and levies.
But if the Lord punished the poor Russians for grave sins with crippled unreasonableness, nothing can be done - a lackey is not a monkey, a person cannot come from him.
Those who are not familiar with it vote for the current opposition, and those who know the opposition better do not take it seriously.
Today, in our great democratic holy Rus', every Russian is honest, as long as he has nothing to steal. At the first opportunity, everyone steals and robs their neighbors - from locksmiths, cleaners and ordinary policemen to prosecutors, generals and the most important ministers. You choose anyone - first, for show off, he will ride a tram a couple of times with the people, and then he will again go with flashing lights and begin to steal more than ever.
Before the elections, everyone, waving flags, promises a lot, after the elections, they steal a lot. And no matter what promising personalities you choose to power, you will still steal without measure.
Therefore, the current elections among various Russian "parties" are similar to the fussy choice of citizens of the Russian Federation in the early 1990s, to which "investment fund" to hand over their unfortunate fraudulent voucher for greater profitability. Since the vouchers handed over to various “investment funds”, no one has received any return. Those who organized these “investment funds” successfully plundered everything donated by the people, becoming billionaires.
Nowadays, no matter who you give your vote to or don’t go to the polls at all, the ordinary people, for the most part also dishonest to the core, will get nothing from the authorities...
But where can Santa Claus find a decent president in today’s great democratic holy Rus'?
And you won’t get far on a sweet pair of these Russian “deer”, and all the children in the world will remain New Year no gifts.
Therefore, the tandem will be elected again, and ordinary Russians will have to finally give up all hopes of improving life in Russia.
In Rus', the current rapid extinction of the people (currently 1.2 million per year) and the mass exodus abroad of the most intelligent (in last years 2.5 million per year), the replacement of native Russians by increasingly numerous newcomers, and in a few years the collapse of Russia will take place into 6-8 independent parts.
Estimated map of Russia after its collapse until 2021 (more likely in 2016)
(according to the forecast of the Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences named after M.V. Keldysh)
Cm..
A map of the former Russian Federation in 2016, according to smart, pragmatic Russian analysts who recently happily fled abroad with their pockets well-filled.
A tentative map of the territory of Russia in 2020 according to true Russian jingoists from the back alley.
If you can correctly guess the right card, it will be easier for you to figure out what is the wiser thing to do next in the Russian card game with the current cheaters, so as not to be left in the cold.
However, try to find a hint in
supported a large number Russians:
The indestructible holy unity of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is the guarantee of the great spiritual future of the people of Russia
The unity of the ideology of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, their common faith in the One God, the piety of their holy prayers offered to the Lord strengthens the unity of the Russian people in the democratic struggle for the right to work, to Russian Orthodox faith, to live according to the Testaments of Christ and according to the holy institutions of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church.
By the grace of God and with the persistent joint work of the Russian Orthodox Church and the communists to revive Russia, together with all the people of our country, the slide of our Motherland into the abyss of crisis and lawlessness will be postponed.
The clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church, the communists of Russia and all Orthodox citizens of the country pray for this every day and call on the Heavenly Forces to help the people complete the 20-year cycle of meaningless and lost years.
To gain irresistible Heavenly grace in the struggle for the rights of the Russian people, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov visited the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and venerated the shrine of the Orthodox world - the Belt of the Virgin Mary, delivered to Moscow from Athos.
When Gennady Andreevich touched the Orthodox relic, those around him saw with delight and awe the miracle of the holy transfiguration of the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the descent of the blessed Heavenly Forces on him by the will of the Mother of God.
With the acquisition of grace from the Orthodox relic, Gennady Zyuganov, as the leader of the largest opposition party in the country - the party of all the people of Holy Rus' - was filled with holy Christian forces with faith, fasting and prayers to decisively complete the election campaign of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and fulfill the election promises of the party, all people's patriotic forces to voters , citizens of the country.
With the Heavenly help of the Most Holy Theotokos - the intercessor and patroness of Russia - the single and indivisible sacred bloc of the Russian Orthodox Church-Communist Party of the Russian Federation will always steadfastly fight for the democratic rights of the Russian people to a happy life in the holy faith, works and prayers, as Christ bequeathed to us, as the Russian Orthodox Church teaches us .
Saints from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
In November 2011, before the elections to the State Duma, the Ministry of Internal Affairs again discovered in the election party lists of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation many dozens of people with criminal records - these are swindlers, embezzlers using their official position, kidnappers involved in murders, even the owner of a brothel using the labor of underage girls and others similar. And, of course, many millionaires. In general, it would be difficult to select a payroll worse than that of the Russian communists.
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation recently set another record.
When the thief in law, the head of the Far Eastern thieves' common fund, was arrested and sentenced to 25 years in prison, Zyuganov personally and all 72 State Duma deputies from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation submitted their parliamentary requests to the Supreme Court to commute the sentence for the convicted person. Until then, in the history of the State Duma, it has never happened that so many deputies were busy with the fate of a thief in law.
It is clear that they would not have been in share - they would not have bothered so much for an inveterate criminal. Apparently, with this arrest, the leadership of the Communist Party lost a valuable ally and a lot of money.
The greatness of the modern great democratic holy Rus'
in its structure in the image and likeness of the Heavenly Kingdom of God
And no enemies of Russia are allowed to violate this greatness.
Andrey Rublev. Trinity.
The Orthodox Lord gave the most holy trinity of truly pious spirit-bearing ascetics to the God-bearing people of Rus' from Heaven.
The truly Orthodox supreme leadership now sent by God to the people of holy Rus', sacredly honoring the commandments of Christ and bearing the Lord’s Heavenly Holiness to the common people:
senior godlike spiritual Father, junior godlike spiritual Son
and the earthly sovereign of the Heavenly Powers, the godlike Holy Spirit,
spending time in great cares and prayers for the good of Rus'.
Our Russian God always has an “administrative resource”, i.e. the possibility of forgery and falsification of election results in order to illegally criminally seize and hold state power in the hands of our most holy God-sent Russian Trinity.
Holy Church Establishments
about the proper attitude of Russian commoners
to any power over them
The Holy Scripture says:
From the Epistle to the Romans of St. Paul the Apostle
Chapter 13
1 Let every soul be subject to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God; the existing authorities have been established by God.
2 Therefore he who resists authority resists God’s ordinance. And those who resist will bring condemnation upon themselves.
3 For rulers are not a terror to good deeds, but to evil deeds. Do you want to not be afraid of power? Do good and you will receive praise from her,
4 For the ruler is God’s servant, for your good. But if you do evil, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain: he is God's servant, the avenger in punishment for the one who does evil.
5 And therefore one must obey not only out of fear of punishment, but also out of conscience.
6 For this, you pay taxes, for they are God's servants, constantly busy with this.
7 Therefore give to everyone their due: to whom to give, to give; to whom quitrent, quitrent; to whom fear, fear; to whom honor, honor.
Always following these holy Institutions of the Lord, approved and sanctified by the most holy Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church, true believing Orthodox people from the people treat all authorities with reverent respect and in granting them God-given authorities they always rely on the great thing happening in Heaven God's providence.
For the weak minds of common people from low tax-paying classes cannot understand the lofty, many-wise thoughts of the elite ecclesiastical and secular authorities bestowed by the Lord Himself.
The truly Orthodox are always in splendid joy and admiration for all the power that God has deemed necessary to bestow upon them.
In great gratitude to the Lord, ordinary Russians always strive with their pious, well-behaved helpfulness and all-round expressions of admiration to earn the highest approval of the God-sent authorities.
And seeing these sincere people’s efforts, the Lord every time sends to the Russians more and more wise and godly rulers. And although every time it seems to the people that it cannot be better and wiser than what is already there, the next ruler always turns out to be even better and even nicer to the people.
For whatever God does for the Russians, it all leads to endless Russian hopes for the best.
People in Rus' live with these bright hopes for the efforts of God from generation to generation, from century to century. And to realize that a good future does not grow from a bad present is not according to the reason given to them by God.
“Then God looked at everything He had created and saw that it was all very good. And there was evening and there was morning: the sixth day.” (Genesis 1:31)
There is nothing more beautiful than God’s peace, which the Lord himself said was good.
And our holy Rus' is the most precious and most perfect God-beloved pearl in the crown of the Lord’s Creation.
If in our great democratic holy Rus' one of the doubting sinners tries to see imaginary Russian “imperfections” and “injustices” around him, it is only due to the immaturity of the mind and the lack of true faith.
For the spiritual admonition of these unreasonable apostates in Rus', the holy Russian Orthodox Church, the valiant police and the wise riot police are rigorously acting.
Any dissatisfied enemies of Russia will not be allowed to go down:
For all kinds of malicious subversive elements - these agents of influence paid by the hostile West and their accomplices from among the home-grown, highly educated incorrigible dissatisfied, vainly trying to undermine the eternal foundations of our great democratic holy Rus', the true patriots of Russia will always have a worthy answer:
Pious reading for confirmation in true Orthodox patriotism:
Putin's website – http://putin2012.ru
Letter to Putin
We write and send a letter to the great national leader,
true and permanent President of the Russian Federation
Lord of All Rus' Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
As always, the most sensible election poster belongs to United Russia.
Indeed, in Russia our entire state is for people... Well, perhaps for several people.
Before sending an email to the God-sent from the Holy Heavens, the object of national worship, the greatest of the great and the wisest of the wise, truly godly and forever irreplaceable leader of the great democratic holy Russia, until the end of time, the permanent President of the Russian Federation, dear Mr. Vladimir Vladimirovich PUTIN, you are obliged to first read and agree to be bound by the following User Agreement on his personal campaign website:
Terms of use
Putin's election website,
where you can send your proposal
Putin's personal election website PUTIN2012.RU
cost Russian taxpayers 1.1 million rubles,
Therefore, maintain due respect for the people's funds spent.
The domain name PUTIN2012.RU was registered in 2008 together with the domain name PUTIN2018.RU - i.e. Even then it was planned to extend the term of office of the President of the Russian Federation to 6 years.
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See
Out of excess feelings, you can finally send your letter
to the current Acting President of the Russian Federation Medvedev:
Watch, listen and be inspired in every possible way for the upcoming
On March 4, the election of the great PUTIN, whom the Lord himself gave us,
and the great Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill tirelessly sprinkles with holy water to increase the germination of democratic ideas!
When watching the video, all the true slaves of all Rus' enthusiastically sing along with joyful applause, turning into an enthusiastic ovation!
Let's go, Vladimir Putin! VIDEO:
The change of power in Russia is subject to a strict pattern
Using this pattern, the list of Russian government officials can be continued further into a historical perspective
Of course, the future is unpredictable, but what it will be like and who the people should elect in the elections - the people were informed in a timely manner on September 24, 2011 for a full and unconditional unanimous vote.
The acting president is immensely proud and happy that he managed to at least somehow survive until the end of his appointed term.
This junior tandemist, who in 2007, by order of the ruling elite, was appointed to be elected Acting President until the end of the vacation of the true President of the Russian Federation stipulated by the Constitution of the Russian Federation (Medvedev himself let slip about this in the fall of 2011), loved to criticize all sorts of Russian shortcomings in his speeches to the people, but he was unable to change anything, because did not receive the approval of the authorities who appointed him to the position. It turned out something like the situation of King Yagupop from the children's fairy tale by V. Gubarev "The Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors."
And any public critical remarks of the Acting President remained at the level of notes of a visiting foreign tourist, noting with surprise the multiple shortcomings in the area.
But the old guard now has no reason to rejoice - in 2012, they will again have to return to hard slave plowing on the government’s galleys, and for 12 years at once.
How and for whom the people vote does not matter, because... the outcome of the elections is a done deal, and the slave is guaranteed a new term of exile to the galleys.
For the purpose of at least minimal amusement of the public, unknown persons who have not yet been caught are secretly hanging humorous warning signs on poles in Moscow.
But these clown tricks no longer amuse anyone, because... The Russian people understand more and more clearly that they will have to fully and progressively taste the further fruits of their valiant labors in building their own country with all their own bodily parts - both frontal and rear (as they say in the navy, to receive an oar on the forehead and an anchor on the thighs). ne).
Putin's election confessions
Finally, Putin admitted that under his long leadership, Russia was completely plundered
Russia's attractiveness for long-term investment remains unsatisfactory due to systemic corruption, says Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin.
Putin, who held the highest government post from 2000-2008 and was the real leader of Russia from 2008-2011, is again running for president in the elections on March 4, 2012.
“The business climate in the country and its attractiveness for long-term investment are still unsatisfactory. Over the past few years, at the initiative of President Medvedev, we have launched a number of reforms aimed at improving the business climate. But no noticeable changes have yet occurred,” says the prime minister’s article published on Monday in the Vedomosti newspaper.
Russia is losing in the “competition of jurisdictions” - businesses operating in Russia often prefer to register property and transactions abroad. And the point, Putin notes, is not the tax regime - it is generally competitive, and not the lack of legislation that meets modern requirements - it still needs to be improved, since it is not yet flexible enough and does not provide the full range of tools for business.
“The main problem is the lack of transparency and public control in the work of government representatives - from customs and tax services to the judicial and law enforcement systems. If you call a spade a spade, we are talking about systemic corruption,” Putin states.
“Business costs can fluctuate - you can pay more or less depending on the “degree of favor” of certain people within the government mechanism towards you. Rational behavior for an entrepreneur in this case is not to comply with the law, but to find patrons and come to an agreement. But such an “agreed” business, in turn, will try to suppress competitors, clear a place for itself in the market, using the capabilities of affiliated officials of the tax, law enforcement, and judicial systems, instead of increasing the economic efficiency of their enterprises,” the article says.
According to Putin, low investment attractiveness and significant capital outflow are largely “a consequence of our actions in the late 90s - early 2000s.” The struggle then was between those who appropriated the main cash flows from the sale of raw materials and energy resources in the 90s, and those who wanted to return them to the state and use them for the benefit of the entire society, the prime minister noted.
“I think that we did the right thing then by increasing the influence of the state in the raw materials industries. And not only because some of the oligarchs tried to continue to directly “buy politics.” At the very beginning of my first presidential term, we were faced with persistent attempts to sell key assets abroad. The preservation of the country’s strategic resources in the private hands of a few people over the next five to ten years meant that control over our economy would be exercised from the outside,” Putin writes.
The Prime Minister notes that we are not talking about some kind of conspiracy against Russia.
“The matter is completely different. Look at how international capital behaves in an environment of instability, turbulence, and the feeling of an imminent crisis: in order to save the national core of its business, it does not hesitate to withdraw funds from “developing markets” - and Russia, in their opinion, is one of them, and even more so was in the beginning last decade,” Putin explained.
According to him, the sustainability of the country's development is determined not only by macroeconomic indicators.
“The stability of the country is also based on the fact that the majority of people who own capital and make investment decisions live in this country, connect the future of their children with it, and correlate their long-term interests with its development,” the head of government believes.
[Of course, no reasonable person connects his future with the current thieves' Russia - everyone who can diligently transfers their funds abroad; Every year about 2.5 million of the smartest Russians flee Russia abroad. There is only one future for a plundered and dying Russia - further collapse in the coming years into 6-8 parts. - approx. website]
Wisely fled to the West in a timely manner
Russian writer-prophet predicted from abroad
Los Angeles, January 23, 2012
Putin will last no more than 2 years, if at all, due to the stupidity of the people, he will be able to get elected, says Vladimir Voinovich.
In 1986, Russian writer Vladimir Voinovich published the novel Moscow 2042, describing how post-Soviet Russia would be ruled by a former KGB spy who worked in Germany, which later happened to Vladimir Putin. In an interview with The Los Angeles Times, Voinovich noted that he then felt Soviet authority was drowning in her own old age and infirmity, and that it was time for the KGB to take control of the situation. Now the writer anticipates the end of the Putin era.
Presidential elections - 1991
On June 12, 1991, the presidential elections of the RSFSR took place. This was the only election in which citizens voted for president and vice president on the same ballot, following the American model. Many candidates were nominated for the post of head of state, but in reality only 10 couples submitted documents to the CEC. Boris Gromov, who later became “number two” under Nikolai Ryzhkov, initially ran for the main position, as did Albert Makashov’s “partner” - Alexey Sergeev.
Pairs of candidates were required to submit 100 thousand signatures to the CEC. Everyone did this except Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who took advantage of the legal opportunity and requested the support of people's deputies. For Zhirinovsky to become a candidate, at least 20% of those elected had to support him.
Candidates:
for president - Boris Yeltsin, 60 years old, Chairman of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR; for vice president - Alexander Rutskoy, 43 years old, chairman of the committee of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR, colonel, - non-partisan, with the support of democratic forces;
for president - Nikolai Ryzhkov, 62 years old, former chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers; for vice president - Boris Gromov, 47 years old, First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR, People's Deputy of the USSR, Colonel General, Communist Party of the RSFSR;
for president - Vladimir Zhirinovsky, 45 years old, politician; for vice president - Andrey Zavidia, 38 years old, president of the Galand concern, - LDPSS;
for president - Aman Tuleev, 47, chairman of the Kemerovo Regional Council of People's Deputies, people's deputy of the RSFSR; vice-presidents - Viktor Bocharov, 57 years old, head of the Kuzbassshakhtostroy plant, people's deputy of the RSFSR, - non-party;
for the presidency - Albert Makashov, 53, commander of the Volga-Urals military district, people's deputy of the USSR, colonel general; vice-president - Aleksey Sergeev, 60 years old, head of the department of the Academy of Labor and Social Relations, - Communist Party of the RSFSR;
for president - Vadim Bakatin, 53 years old, former Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR; for vice-president - Ramazan Abdulatipov, 44 years old, chairman of the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR, - non-party.
The elections were held according to the absolute majority system.
Turnout was 74.70%.
On July 10, 1991, Boris Yeltsin became president of the RSFSR, and Alexander Rutskoi took over as vice president.
Presidential Election - 1996
The first round took place on June 16. The CEC has registered 78 initiative groups for the nomination of presidential candidates. 16 groups were able to collect the million signatures required by law. As a result, the Central Electoral Commission registered nine candidates, seven were rejected. Six of them appealed the decision to the Supreme Court, which eventually ruled that two more be registered. One of the candidates was Aman Tuleyev. On the eve of the elections, he withdrew his candidacy and called on his supporters to vote for Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov.
Candidates:
Boris Yeltsin, 65, current Russian president;
Gennady Zyuganov, 51 years old, Communist Party of the Russian Federation;
Alexander Lebed, 46 years old, Congress of Russian Communities;
Grigory Yavlinsky, 44 years old, Yabloko party;
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, 50 years old, LDPR;
Svyatoslav Fedorov, 68 years old, ophthalmologist, Workers' Self-Government Party;
Mikhail Gorbachev, 65, former President of the USSR;
Martin Shukkum, 44, Socialist People's Party;
Yuri Vlasov, 60 years old, weightlifter, ex-State Duma deputy;
Vladimir Bryntsalov, 59 years old, businessman, Russian Socialist Party.
The turnout in the first round was 69.81%.
To win in the first round, a candidate had to get 50% of the votes. Since none of them could do this, a second round was announced, which took place on July 3, 1996.
During the second, the turnout there was 68.88%.
Boris Yeltsin was re-elected President of Russia for a second term.
Presidential Election - 2000
On December 31, 1999, New Year's Eve, Boris Yeltsin announced his resignation, six months before the end of his presidential term. In accordance with the law, in this case, early elections should have taken place within three months. On January 5, 2000, the Federation Council scheduled a vote for March 26. The Central Election Commission registered 28 initiative groups that nominated candidates for the post of head of state. Another five were nominated by electoral associations. The number of required signatures, due to the tight deadlines for submitting documents, was halved - from one million to 500 thousand signatures. 15 headquarters were able to present them. As a result, the CEC registered 12 people. Five days before the elections, one of the contenders, Yevgeny Sevastyanov, withdrew his candidacy in favor of Yabloko leader Grigory Yavlinsky.
Candidates:
Vladimir Putin, 47, Russian Prime Minister, self-nominated;
Gennady Zyuganov, 55 years old, Communist Party of the Russian Federation;
Grigory Yavlinsky, 47 years old, Yabloko party;
Aman Tuleyev, 55 years old, governor of the Kemerovo region, self-nominated candidate;
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, 53 years old, LDPR;
Konstantin Titov, 55 years old, governor of the Samara region, Russian Party of Social Democracy, Union of Right Forces;
Ella Pamfilova, 46 years old, socio-political movement “For Civic Dignity”;
Stanislav Govorukhin, 64 years old, film director, “Fatherland - All Russia” party;
Yuri Skuratov, 47, former Prosecutor General of Russia;
Alexey Podberezkin, 47 years old, socio-political movement “Spiritual Heritage”;
Umar Dzhabrailov, 41 years old, businessman.
On March 26, 2000, elections took place. Vladimir Putin, having overcome the 50 percent barrier, was elected President of the Russian Federation.
The turnout was 68.64%.
Presidential elections - 2004
A peculiarity of the 2004 presidential elections was that the leaders of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, Gennady Zyuganov and Vladimir Zhirinovsky, did not participate in them. Instead, the parties fielded “newcomers”: Nikolai Kharitonov and Oleg Malyshkin. Yabloko leader Grigory Yavlinsky also did not run. As a result, the CEC registered six candidates. Six more failed to obtain registration: multimillionaire, chairman public organization“All-Russian Party of the People” Anzori Aksentiev-Kikalishvili; businessman Vladimir Bryntsalov; ex-head of the Central Bank, nominated by the Party of Russian Regions (now A Just Russia), Viktor Gerashchenko; public figure Ivan Rybkin; Chairman of the public movement “For Social Justice” Igor Smykov and the odious businessman German Sterligov.
Candidates:
Vladimir Putin, 51, current president of Russia, self-nominated candidate;
Nikolai Kharitonov, 55 years old, Communist Party of the Russian Federation;
Sergei Glazyev, 43 years old, self-nominated candidate;
Irina Khakamada, 49 years old, SPS, “Our Choice”;
Oleg Malyshkin, 52 years old, LDPR;
Sergei Mironov, 51, chairman of the Federation Council, was nominated by the Russian Party of Life.
The turnout was 64.38%.
Presidential elections - 2008
According to the Russian Constitution, Vladimir Putin could no longer run for the post of president of the country. He officially supported the nomination of the United Russia candidate, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, for the post of head of state. This choice was supported by the parties “A Just Russia”, “Civil Power”, “Agrarian Party” and “Greens”. The Central Election Commission registered four presidential candidates. 14 people received refusals, including the leader of the Russian People's Democratic Union and the People for Democracy and Justice party, Mikhail Kasyanov. The defects in the signature lists that he provided to the CEC amounted to 13.36% instead of the permissible level of 5%. The world chess champion, one of the leaders of the “Other Russia” coalition, Garry Kasparov, was also not registered. The congress of the initiative group putting forward it did not take place.
Candidates:
Dmitry Medvedev, 42 years old, first deputy prime minister, United Russia party;
Gennady Zyuganov, 63 years old, Communist Party of the Russian Federation;
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, 61 years old, LDPR;
Andrey Bogdanov, 38 years old, self-nominated candidate supported by the Democratic Party of Russia;
According to PACE representatives, the results of the 2008 elections reflect the will of the people. “The people of Russia voted for stability and continuity, which is associated with the current president and the candidate he supports. The elected president will have a solid mandate from the majority of Russians,” stated observers from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
The turnout was 69.6%.
Presidential elections - 2012
On March 4, 2012, the next presidential elections in Russia took place. Dmitry Medvedev decided not to participate in the elections; Vladimir Putin became the main candidate for the post of head of state. In total, the Central Election Commission registered five candidates. Among others, the leader of the unregistered Other Russia party, Eduard Limonov, and a member of the Yabloko political committee, Grigory Yavlinsky, received refusals due to violations of the procedure.
Candidates:
Vladimir Putin, 59 years old, non-party, nominated by United Russia;
Gennady Zyuganov, 67 years old, Communist Party of the Russian Federation;
Mikhail Prokhorov, 46 years old, businessman, self-nominated candidate;
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, 65 years old, LDPR;
Sergei Mironov, 59 years old, “A Just Russia”.
In all regions of Russia, Vladimir Putin took first place. Moreover, in Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia and several other regions, he received more than 90% of the votes. Only in Moscow did Putin fail to overcome the 50% barrier, gaining 46.95%.
The election results were announced on March 5. On the same day, President-elect Vladimir Putin was congratulated by the leaders of Syria and Iran, Bashar al-Assad and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. On March 10, the head of state received congratulations from the owner of the White House, Barack Obama. On May 7, 2012, the president officially took office.
Resolution of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation on calling the presidential elections of the Russian Federation on March 18, 2018. From this moment on, the election campaign begins in Russia. The editors of TASS-DOSSIER have prepared material about the history of the presidential elections in the Russian Federation.
In Russia, the post of president was established in 1991. Since then, elections have been held six times: in 1991, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012. In the only case - in 1996 - a second round of voting was required to determine the winner. In 1991, the president was elected for five years. In 1993, the term of office of the head of state was reduced to four years (new rules came into force with the 1996 elections). In accordance with amendments to the Basic Law, which entered into force on December 31, 2008, since 2012 the President of the Russian Federation has been elected for a six-year period.
Presidential elections of the RSFSR June 12, 1991
First in modern history The presidential elections in Russia took place on June 12, 1991. 106 million 484 thousand 518 people were included in the electoral lists, the voter turnout was 74.66%. The Central Election Commission for the presidential elections of the RSFSR (Centrizbirkom) registered six pairs of candidates (for the posts of president and vice-president of the RSFSR).
The first to receive registration was the chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union (LDPSS; since 1992 - LDPR) Vladimir Zhirinovsky, and Andrei Zavidia, head of the Galand concern, ran with him for the post of vice president. Zhirinovsky was nominated by his own party. In addition, the Central Election Commission registered:
Vadim Bakatin, member of the USSR Security Council, former Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR (together with the Chairman of the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR Ramazan Abdulatipov);
Boris Yeltsin, Chairman of the Supreme Council (SC) of the RSFSR (with Chairman of the Committee of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR, leader of the Communists for Democracy faction, Colonel Alexander Rutsky);
Albert Makashov, Colonel General, Commander of the Volga-Ural Military District, People's Deputy of the USSR (with the head of the department of the Academy of Labor and Social Relations Alexey Sergeev);
Nikolai Ryzhkov, People's Deputy of the USSR, former Prime Minister of the USSR (with First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR, People's Deputy of the USSR Colonel General Boris Gromov);
Aman Tuleyev, Chairman of the Kemerovo Regional Council of People's Deputies, People's Deputy of the RSFSR (with the head of the Kuzbassshakhtostroy plant, People's Deputy of the RSFSR Viktor Bocharov).
The required number of voter signatures (100 thousand) were collected in support of all candidates, except for the leader of the LDPSU. Zhirinovsky's candidacy, as a party nominee, had to be approved by "at least one fifth of the votes of people's deputies of the RSFSR." On May 22, 1991, at the IV Congress of People's Deputies of the RSFSR, 477 deputies voted for inclusion of his candidacy on the ballot, 417 were against, 36 abstained (the total number of those present at the meeting was 930).
Boris Yeltsin was elected President of the RSFSR, receiving 57.30% (45 million 552 thousand 41) of the votes. Second place with a result of 16.85% (13 million 359 thousand 335) was taken by Nikolai Ryzhkov, third - Vladimir Zhirinovsky (7.81%, 6 million 211 thousand 7). 1.92% of voters (1 million 525 thousand 410) voted against all candidates, 2.16% of ballots (1 million 716 thousand 757) were declared invalid. 155 million rubles were allocated from the federal budget for the elections.
Russian presidential elections June 16 - July 3, 1996
On June 16, 1996, the next presidential elections of the Russian Federation took place. The number of voters was 108 million 495 thousand 23 people, of which 69.81% took part in the voting. Initially, the Central Election Commission registered 11 candidates. However, on June 13, 1996, the Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Kemerovo Region, Aman Tuleyev, withdrew his candidacy in favor of the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov. His name was crossed out from the already printed ballots. And the ballots in which voters marked his name when voting were considered invalid. As a result, 10 candidates took part in the elections:
Vladimir Bryntsalov, State Duma deputy, president of the pharmaceutical company Ferein;
Yuri Vlasov, former weightlifter, writer and public figure;
Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Gorbachev Foundation, former General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and President of the USSR;
Boris Yeltsin, current President of the Russian Federation;
Alexander Lebed, State Duma deputy;
Svyatoslav Fedorov, State Duma deputy, director of the Interdisciplinary Scientific and Technical Complex "Eye Microsurgery";
Martin Shakkum, Director General of the International Fund for Economic and Social Reforms;
Grigory Yavlinsky, chairman of the Yabloko party.
Eight candidates were nominated by initiative groups of citizens, two - Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Grigory Yavlinsky - by political parties.
The largest number of votes - 35.28% (26 million 665 thousand 495) - in the first round of elections was received by Boris Yeltsin, second place was taken by Gennady Zyuganov, who received 32.03% (24 million 211 thousand 686). The third result was for Alexander Lebed - 14.52% (10 million 974 thousand 736).
On July 3, 1996, a second round of voting took place, due to the fact that none of the candidates received more than half of the votes in the first round. 108 million 589 thousand 50 people were included in the voter lists, the turnout was 68.88%. The current head of state Boris Yeltsin was elected President of the Russian Federation, receiving 53.82% (40 million 202 thousand 349) of the votes, Gennady Zyuganov received 40.31% (30 million 104 thousand 589). 4.82% of voters (3 million 603 thousand 760) voted against all candidates. 780 thousand 592 (1.05%) ballots were declared invalid.
The cost of the election campaign, according to the report of the Central Election Commission, amounted to 950.1 billion rubles.
Early elections of the President of the Russian Federation on March 26, 2000
The next presidential elections in the Russian Federation were to be held on July 9, 2000. However, on December 31, 1999, Russian President Boris Yeltsin announced his voluntary resignation. On January 5, 2000, the Federation Council scheduled early presidential elections for March 26. The names of 109 million 372 thousand 46 people were entered in the voter lists before the voting, the turnout was 68.70%. 11 candidates took part in the elections:
Stanislav Govorukhin, State Duma deputy;
Umar Dzhabrailov, entrepreneur, president of the Plaza Group company;
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, chairman of the LDPR;
Gennady Zyuganov, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation;
Ella Pamfilova, Chairman of the Presidium of the All-Russian Public Association "For Civil Dignity";
Aleksey Podberezkin, leader of the socio-political movement "Spiritual Heritage";
Vladimir Putin, etc. O. President of the Russian Federation;
Yuri Skuratov, Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation;
Konstantin Titov, Governor of the Samara Region;
Aman Tuleyev, governor of the Kemerovo region;
Grigory Yavlinsky, chairman of the Yabloko association.
Most of the candidates were nominated from initiative groups of voters, two from parties and social movements. Vladimir Zhirinovsky was nominated by the LDPR, Ella Pamfilova was nominated by the association “For Civic Dignity”.
He won the elections on March 26, 2000. O. President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, who received 52.94% (39 million 740 thousand 467) of the votes. Second place went to Gennady Zyuganov with a result of 29.21% (21 million 928 thousand 468), third - Grigory Yavlinsky, who received 5.80% (4 million 351 thousand 450). 1.88% of voters (1 million 414 thousand 673) voted against all candidates, 701 thousand 16 (0.93%) ballots were declared invalid.
According to the CEC of Russia, 1 billion 420 million rubles were spent from the state budget on the preparation and holding of the presidential elections.
Russian presidential elections on March 14, 2004
On December 10, 2003, the Federation Council adopted a resolution on setting the date of the next presidential election for March 14, 2004. The number of voters included in the lists amounted to 108 million 64 thousand 281 people, of which 64.38% took part in the elections. The names of six candidates were included in the ballot:
Sergei Glazyev, head of the Rodina faction in the State Duma;
Oleg Malyshkin, State Duma deputy from the LDPR;
Vladimir Putin, current President of the Russian Federation;
Sergei Mironov, Chairman of the Federation Council;
Irina Khakamada, co-chair of the Union of Right Forces party in 2000-2003;
Nikolai Kharitonov, State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
Three candidates were self-nominated - Sergey Glazyev, Irina Khakamada and Vladimir Putin. The remaining contenders for the post of head of state were nominated by political parties. Nikolai Kharitonov went to the polls from the Communist Party, Sergei Mironov - from the Russian Party "Life", Oleg Malyshkin - from the Liberal Democratic Party.
As a result of voting on March 14, 2004, Vladimir Putin was elected head of state, receiving 71.31% (49 million 558 thousand 328) of the votes. Second place with a score of 13.69% (9 million 514 thousand 554) was taken by Nikolai Kharitonov, third - Sergey Glazyev, who scored 4.10% (2 million 850 thousand 610). 3.45% of voters (2 million 397 thousand 140) voted against everyone, 578 thousand 847 (0.83%) ballots were declared invalid.
According to the report of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, budget expenditures for the presidential elections amounted to 2 billion 564 million rubles.
Russian presidential elections on March 2, 2008
On November 26, 2007, the Federation Council of the Russian Federation approved the date of the presidential elections - March 2, 2008. 107 million 222 thousand 16 voters were included in the voting lists, the turnout was 69.81%. Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the country's constitution, had no right to run for office for the third time in a row.
Four candidates took part in the elections:
Andrey Bogdanov, leader of the Democratic Party of Russia;
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, chairman of the LDPR;
Gennady Zyuganov, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation;
Dmitry Medvedev, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.
Three candidates were nominated by political parties: Vladimir Zhirinovsky (LDPR), Gennady Zyuganov (KPRF) and Dmitry Medvedev (United Russia). Andrei Bogdanov became the only self-nominated candidate who collected the required number of signatures in his support and was registered with the Central Election Commission.
On March 2, 2008, Dmitry Medvedev was elected President of the Russian Federation, receiving 70.28% (52 million 530 thousand 712) of the votes. Second place with a score of 17.72% (13 million 243 thousand 550) was taken by Gennady Zyuganov, third - Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who scored 9.35% (6 million 988 thousand 510).
Invalid ballots - 1.36% (1 million 15 thousand 533). On July 12, 2006, amendments were made to the election legislation, according to which the “against all” column on ballots was abolished.
Total federal budget expenses for holding elections amounted to 4 billion 939 million rubles.
Russian presidential elections on March 4, 2012
On November 25, 2011, the Federation Council appointed elections for the President of the Russian Federation on a single voting day on March 4, 2012.
The Central Election Commission has registered five presidential candidates:
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, chairman of the LDPR;
Gennady Zyuganov, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation;
Sergei Mironov, chairman of the “A Just Russia” faction in the State Duma;
Mikhail Prokhorov, entrepreneur, president of Onexim Group LLC;
Vladimir Putin, Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation.
Four candidates ran from parliamentary parties. Mikhail Prokhorov ran in the elections as a self-nominated candidate.
On March 4, 2012, Vladimir Putin was elected President of the Russian Federation, receiving 63.60% (45 million 602 thousand 75) of the votes. Second place was taken by Gennady Zyuganov (17.18%, 12 million 318 thousand 353), third - Mikhail Prokhorov (7.98%, 5 million 722 thousand 508). 836 thousand 691 ballots (1.17%) were declared invalid.
10 billion 375 million rubles were spent from the federal budget on holding the presidential elections of the Russian Federation.
Yesterday at 00:00 Moscow time, the first polling stations for the Russian presidential elections opened. Residents of Kamchatka and Chukotka began voting in the elections, which will end after the closure of polling stations in the westernmost region of the country, the Kaliningrad region.
The first voting results from the Central Election Commission and the results of exit polls will appear no earlier than today at 21:00 Moscow time, when the last polling station in Kaliningrad closes. It is prohibited to announce preliminary election results until the last polling stations close.
20. 15 Ufa - the last wave of mass removals of observers and journalists
Before the closure of polling stations in Ufa, the last wave of removals of journalists, observers and deliberative voting members of the electoral commission took place. First of all, journalists from opposition media, the newspapers "Civil Voice" and "Yabloko Rossii" are removed.
Observers of the “Most Honest Observer” group Dmitry Chuvilin and Amir Kurbanov were removed from site No. 33. A certain PEC member knocked his mobile phone out of his hands.
Two journalists from Ren TV Ufa were removed from station No. 388 just before closing.
Two correspondents of the newspaper "Civil Voice" were removed from station No. 142 due to "inadequate execution of editorial documents."
According to the Honest Election Campaign movement, journalists from Ren TV Ufa, Vesti-24, and the Police Wave radio station were removed from polling stations Nos. 312, 355, 309, 117, 334, 133, 315, 259, 365, 145, 232, 243, 261, 260, 404, 356, 270, 357, 353, 232, 262, 47, 100.
Removals of observers and PEC members with advisory voting rights occurred at polling stations Nos. 291, 118, 68, 291, 119, 261, 304, 67.
The YABLOKO party reported the removal of correspondents of the Yabloko Rossii newspaper from polling stations No. 28, 166, 383, 880 (the latter in the Arkhangelsk region of Bashkiria).
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation also reports the removal of a number of its observers and correspondents of the newspaper "Communist of Bashkortostan". Even PEC members with voting rights are removed and suspended from work, as happened at polling station No. 243.
"A Just Russia" announced the removal of its observer from polling station No. 404. According to the head of the local branch of the "Socialist Revolutionaries" Konstantin Shagimuratov, the removal occurred immediately after the discovery of a difference of 900 ballots between the number of ballots issued to voters and those discovered during the vote count. Three policemen threw out first the observer and then his clothes.
Arthur Asafiev - especially for Novaya, Ufa.
Chechnya. Polling station No. 394 in the center of Grozny
From 8.30. In the morning, students and teachers (the instructions were given long ago) gathered in the main building of the Grozny Petroleum Institute, and then the authorities began to distribute the people: some were sent to city sites in buses, cars, gazelles. The time of arrival and stay at the designated area was agreed upon in advance. In principle, this is a version of the “carousel”, but people do not vote, but act as extras on camera. Moreover, women were recommended to take with them different headscarves and scarves and exchange them. Several people were sent to the polling station to act as observers from various parties. From 9 o'clock people came to the polling station, clearly not real voters, but extras. The attendance of employees of various offices was marked here by their managers with a personal signature. People don't live in this area, but vote here.
In a private conversation, it turned out that they were forced to come to the city center and brought to the polling station under the threat of dismissal. And two weeks before the elections in the republic, collective meetings and gatherings of citizens were held, at which they were encouraged to vote “for you know who.” Parliament of the Chechen Republic, Ministry of Labor, Pension Fund, the Ministry of Housing and Communal Services and others - each employee was obliged to bring 10 people to the site under the threat of dismissal, and the employees called and asked relatives, acquaintances, and neighbors to help them out. At half past ten, a large crowd of people formed at the said polling station, ostensibly to vote. But no one checked the documents; they let us in freely and immediately, pretending to be an extra, left. Before this, the mayor of Grozny, Khuchiev, was at the site, and help in the form of a carousel arrived immediately in several gazelles. This is where pandemonium ensued. A concert and dancing were organized in front of the site.
At about 12 o'clock, a group of "carousel workers" arrived in 3 minibuses, some of whom, indignantly, said that this was already the fifth polling station to which they had been brought to vote in the morning.
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19.15 In the Omsk region, the turnout for elections was 63%
In Omsk and the region, elections for the president and deputies of the city council have ended. According to preliminary data, turnout was significantly higher than in the December elections to the State Duma and Legislative Assembly. Then 47% of voters in the city voted - now 56%, in rural areas - 53.7% and 67%, respectively.
The regional election commission, according to its secretary Alexander Khristolubov, did not receive a single significant complaint: “all issues were resolved as usual.” The City Election Commission registered 9 complaints about violations: in the most meaningful speech It's about illegal campaigning on the day of silence. In particular, representatives of the LDPR accused the governor of the Omsk region, Polezhaev, who, leaving the polling station in the presence of the media, said that he voted for the current political government.
18.25 Omsk. 53-year-old voter died of a heart attack in a voting booth
At station No. 463 in the city center, a 53-year-old man died while performing his civic duty. He had a heart attack in the voting booth - he did not have time to mark the ballot and put it in the ballot box.
The Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation is conducting an investigation into the death of the voter. According to his press secretary Larisa Boldinova, this man “suffered from chronic heart disease, suffered two heart attacks and was discharged from the hospital only on March 2.”
In the comments to this news, Omsk residents write on websites about the disgusting conditions in which they had to vote today: “It’s stuffy there, and a healthy person can’t stand it, the lines are like a mausoleum, there’s no organization,” “at our polling station No. 393 the premises are scanty, stuffy, there’s a line I reached up the stairs and felt sick. It’s as if everything was done on purpose so that people would leave without voting...”, “p..t. complete! room 3x3 there are a lot of people, it’s hot, old women, grandfathers ate alive somehow they get there... not everyone who is healthy can survive it, and even more so a person with an illness!”
The same tragedy happened in Omsk during the elections on December 4: then a 67-year-old voter died at polling station No. 372 after leaving the voting booth.
Georgy Borodyansky, correspondent. Novaya Gazeta Omsk
18:08 In Vladivostok, at polling station No. 258, a young man freely cast about 20 ballots into electronic ballot boxes. The criminal offense was recorded by a video camera installed in the PEC. These footage also clearly shows that the work of the “colleague” is carefully monitored by three young people. One of whom is possibly a polling station employee (he has a badge on his chest). The ballot box is in sight of the election commission, but the criminal takes his time putting eight ballots into one electronic ballot box. And then, just as calmly, he stuffs seven more ballots into the next one.
Mikhail Blokhin
18.06. Tula. Precinct No. 961. PEC employees did not allow observers to accompany them during mobile voting at home. The observers were simply not allowed in when they said they would go too. Among these observers was a representative from the media (the Yabloko Rossii newspaper) Mikhail Shestakov. He and his fellow observers followed the PEC employees in their car. At some point, they managed to block two cars of PEC employees, one of which was a Toyota Camry 333. Tula City Duma deputy from United Russia Sukhanov got out of the car. He knocked Shestakov down, took his video camera and pulled out a flash card from it.
Currently, Shestakov is testifying about the incident to the police and the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.
Elena Kostyuchenko
17.52 Khimki, station 3011.
Without informing the observers and advisory voting members of the commission, the voting member of the commission and Putin’s observer went to a mobile vote in one of the branches of the Central Clinical Hospital of Khimki. The number of ballots was not known; we were not allowed to familiarize ourselves with the register.
After submitting a written complaint, observers were told that there were 386 voters on the register. It seems to me that the hospital does not have that many places at all.
They refused to provide the register itself “for a technical reason”; at 16.30 the commission members returned with a box full of ballots.
At neighboring polling station 3010, observers were generally prohibited from going to mobile voting, and the commission refused to accept complaints.
UPD 20.00 Blogger Oleg Kozyrev reported that employees of the "E" center arrived at polling stations 3010 and 3011
Oleg, observer from candidate Prokhorov (last name available to the editors) at polling station 3011 in Khimki.
17.31 Moscow. At polling stations in the Southern Administrative District, “carousel voters” are voting in a continuous stream. These are gas workers, builders, traders from the nearby Zamoskvoretsky Market. They vote several times - in polling stations - in particular - No. 1951, No. 1961, No. 1966, etc. - they are transported by buses. Approximately 100-150 people take part in the “carousel” in the Southern Administrative District. Moreover, what is most outrageous is that all these people do not have Moscow registration, without which they cannot vote according to the law. The chairmen of the precinct election commissions and the police, from whom observers demand to take action, turn a blind eye to this and in every possible way reject the observers. And, of course, they refuse to check that the carousel operators have registration.
The carousel drivers themselves are not talkative on camera. They say the standard - they say, the employer obliges them to work even on weekends and therefore there was no time to take absenteeism, but they want to vote so much that they decided to do it on the basis of personal statements (which, in principle, is not forbidden by law). However, some let out the same cameras: they collected them all on buses near the Park Kultury metro station, you had to say a code word and you got access to the bus.
17.28 City Election Committee of St. Petersburg:“By 5 p.m., 9 complaints had been received, no serious violations”
Only at about 4 p.m. did the first complaints begin to arrive at the City Election Commission, - Alexander Gnetov, chairman of the State Electoral Commission, said at a briefing. - By 17:00 we had considered 9 appeals, two of which were submitted to the commission. Members of TEC No. 17 complained to us that the documents were not submitted for review. The commission declared the chairman's actions illegal. In addition, the same TEC No. 17 did not include members from Yabloko as members of the commission. Having considered the motivational part, the City Electoral Commission considered the actions of the TEC illegal, ordered the TEC to make changes and include Yabloko members in the commission.
According to Gnetov, no other serious violations were recorded.
If complaints continue to be received, the City Electoral Committee will deal with them, - said the chairman of the State Electoral Commission.
17.17 In Izhevsk, observers from candidate Vladimir Putin do not consider it necessary to sit at polling stations all day
Activists of the movement "For Fair Elections" report that some observers from the presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, having checked in at the polling stations in the morning, left them - probably before the evening.
So, they left Izhevsk sections 3/59, 2/22 and 2/24 without observation.
Apparently, the supporters of this candidate believe that the desired result will be achieved without close monitoring.
And the coordinator of the movement "For Fair Elections" Andrei Konoval believes that the matter is in the low level of organizational training and insufficient motivation of the representatives of Putin's headquarters.
Boris Bronstein, staff correspondent for Novaya Gazeta, Udmurtia
16.54 Voter turnout in the presidential elections in St. Petersburg reached 32.95% by 15:00.
As a whole across Russia, as the chairman of the City Electoral Committee Alexander Gnetov reported, the turnout by three o'clock in the afternoon exceeded 41%.
Recall that in the elections to the State Duma in 2011 by 15.00 25.49% of voters managed to vote.
In total, 3.48 million voters were recorded in St. Petersburg.
Nina Petlyanova, staff correspondent for Novaya in St. Petersburg
At 18:00, about 52% of voters voted in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The head of the regional election commission, Konstantin Bocharov, spoke about this before the closure of the polling stations. Turnout is traditionally higher than in the Duma elections, but lower than in previous presidential elections. The largest number of people (70%) voted in the North Yenisei and Dzerzhinsky districts. In another seven rural and taiga regions, more than 60% of voters came to the polling stations. In Krasnoyarsk the turnout is 47-48%, in Kansk - 46%.
16.44 In Kirov, several polling stations received many more ballots than they had voters
A large number of “spare” ballots were found at three polling stations in Kirov.
Thus, precinct No. 311, where there are 418 voters on the lists, received 600 ballots from the territorial election commission. Precinct No. 312, where there are 163 voters, has 230 ballots. And at polling station No. 316, where 71 voters are on the list, the supply of ballots is 200, that is, there are three ballots per voter.
The headquarters of A Just Russia believes that extra ballots create an opportunity for stuffing. Complaints have been filed regarding this matter to the Regional Election Commission, the city election commission, and the district election commission.
16.41 France. At polling station 5289 in Marseille, the chairman of the commission presented observers with a document sent to the PEC on February 27 of this year, signed by the surname “Sizykh”. According to it, Russians abroad can vote only with a foreign passport, except in a number of cases, such as the loss of a foreign passport, an expired passport, or surrendering a passport for a visa. All this must be proven by certificates.
Election observers from the Association of Russian Voters in France contacted the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, who contacted the TEC.
The TEC for foreign areas called Marseille and explained that this resolution did not comply with the law. Not a single voter was denied the right to vote due to lack of a passport.
Polina Myakinchenko
16.36 St. Petersburg. Observers from the media (including from Novaya Gazeta), traveling as part of a mobile group to sections of the Vyborg district, are not allowed into the PECs without a certificate of registration of the media they represent. What is illegal is that observers have the right to only ask for editorial assignments and journalist identification. Due to the fact that not all observers had media registration certificates with them, they had to spend time not observing at the polling stations, but getting copies of these certificates.
The same observers who did not encounter such difficulties recorded many false observers in a number of areas. In particular, at the same polling station it was possible to find several observers at once, allegedly from candidate Prokhorov, while by law it was impossible for more than one observer from the party to be present at the polling station. The “observers from Prokhorov” had obviously false documents.
Alexander Malkov, St. Petersburg
16.30 St. Petersburg. According to unofficial data, there are six times more violations than according to official data.
According to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, as of 4 p.m. in the city and region, the police had registered 45 statements of election violations. For comparison: the association “Observers of St. Petersburg” by 15:00 counted 264 violations only at polling stations in the Northern capital.
Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region Sergei Umnov told reporters:
- There were no signals of serious violations of the election process. In total, about 45 incidents related to the elections were reported. They mainly concern election legislation: these are complaints about the removal of observers and other actions of PEC employees that citizens consider unlawful. No complaints were recorded against the actions of police officers.
Umnov also emphasized that all law enforcement officers on duty today will have the opportunity to vote. According to the Main Directorate, more than 30 thousand police officers are involved in the presidential elections in St. Petersburg and the region, of which 18 thousand work directly at polling stations.
Nina Petlyanova, staff correspondent for Novaya in St. Petersburg
16:12 Ufa. Witnesses of falsifications and carousels are removed from the sites
According to sources of the YABLOKO party, a command was passed through the Oktyabrsky and Kirovsky districts of Ufa to remove from the polling stations all observers and correspondents who were continuously filming what was happening at the polling station using video recorders, web cameras, etc.
At polling station No. 23 in the Demsky district, voters not included in the list vote without absentee ballots. The commission explains this by the lack of certificates and permission from the Central Executive Committee of the Republic of Belarus.
A correspondent for the newspaper "Civil Voice" was not allowed into station No. 301.
The observer from Prokhorov was removed from precinct No. 200, citing the fact that his direction was signed not by the chief of the regional headquarters, but by his deputy.
At polling station No. 381 in the Sovetsky district of Ufa, Aleksey Gromov, a member of the electoral commission with the right to an advisory vote from Prokhorov, noticed a “carousel”. The people who ensured the functioning of the carousel ran to the chairman of the commission. Soon a lawyer from Prokhorov’s regional headquarters arrived and brought a piece of paper about the recall of Gromov from the station (!) without any explanation!
In the Soviet district of Ufa, a number of "carousels" were carried out. According to the head of the mobile group of the “The Most Honest Observer” movement, Dmitry Chuvilin, it was possible to identify at least two groups of members of the “Young Guard of United Russia”, traveling on buses around the area and stuffing ballots. According to Chuvilin, the stuffing was carried out in favor of the candidate for President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin and candidates for deputies of the Ufa City Council from the United Russia party. Presumably, the carousel workers visited polling stations Nos. 399, 400, 401, 402, 403, 404, 493, 494. According to Chuvilin’s story, the identification mark for the carousel workers and the PEC members who were in contact with them was a paper clip on the 7th page of the carousel workers’ passport, a paper clip on the badge of a PEC member , or a bottle of Fanta drink standing in front of him on the table.
According to a statement by A.T. Khusainov, a member of the TEC of the Sovetsky district of Ufa with a casting vote from the YABLOKA party, at a TEC meeting, the head of the district administration S.A. Bakhtiyarov instructed the commission to print an additional circulation of ballots for the elections of the President of the Russian Federation in the amount of about 2000 pieces. According to A.T.Khusainov, the commission decided not to follow this instruction. Representatives of the YABLOKO party and the LDPR sent a statement about the incident to the Central Election Commission of the Republic of Belarus.
The correspondent of the newspaper “Otechestvo” M.A. Shestakova was removed from station No. 25 under the pretext of improper execution of an editorial assignment.
According to information from observers of the YABLOKO party at polling station No. 365, citizen Nigmatzyanov, who intended to vote using an absentee ballot, a voting member of the PEC tried to hand over a ballot with a mark already marked in favor of V.V. Putin.
In the city of Neftekamsk, almost all correspondents of the Yabloko Rossii newspaper, who were previously not allowed to enter polling stations, were restored to their rights after 2 p.m. In two cases, the YABLOKO party had to go to court.
However, after 16-00, the 2nd wave of removals of Yabloko members followed - at the time of submitting the press release, correspondents of the newspaper Yabloko Rossii were removed from polling stations No. 465, 474, 482, 483 under the pretext of improper execution of the editorial assignment. , 486, 489.
Artur Asafiev - especially for Novaya, Ufa
16.10 Moscow. Prechistenka, 12. Deputy Ilya Ponomarev, leader of the Left Front Sergei Udaltsov and other members of the public were unable to carry out an alternative counting of ballots in a room rented in advance. When they arrived at the appointed time to the building on Prechistenka, 12, they saw a large number of police and dogs. Police said the building was "at risk of explosion."
Yulia Polukhina
16.05 Omsk. Observers of two city polling stations forced Senator Alexei Sokin to leave them
Member of the Federation Council from the Omsk region Alexey Sokin, who is running for the city council in city district No. 8, visited two of its polling stations to explain to voters who they should vote for: the youngest senator in the country (he will turn 33 in May) called with childlike spontaneity citizens to vote for him, promising them a sharp improvement in their socio-economic situation for this.
The illegal campaigning was stopped by observers: at their request, the senator was forced to leave the voting premises. Observers wrote complaints to the territorial election commission about his unworthy behavior.
Georgy Borodyansky, correspondent. "Novaya Gazeta" Omsk
15.55 Communist Party Headquarters
By Sunday afternoon, the central headquarters of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation had already received several hundred complaints from observers about violations. State Duma deputy accepts complaints Valery Rashkin and deputy head of the legal service of the communists Andrey Klychkov. Rashkin draws up parliamentary requests based on them and immediately sends them by courier to the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Central Election Commission. Copies are given to journalists. I already have about a kilogram on my hands. Just received a complaint from an observer from Dagestan Derbent. There, local college students are transported by bus to the sites. The carousel is accompanied by a police patrol.
Member of Commission No. 5201 Tikhoretsk Koryakina with a voting right, as well as her friend Markelova with an advisory vote, report that they cannot leave their homes. Since the front doors are nailed shut and the windows are covered with tape.
IN Bryansk region the head of the Krasnogorsk district, Rezunov, threatened observer Alexander Kucha with violence.
And here is a complaint from Moscow Medvedkov, station No. 3177. Almost a hundred citizens with absentee certificates were brought here - also by buses. Lawyer Klychkov immediately displays the image from the webcams on the monitor. The video shows a crowd of people.
What, Medvedkov's carousel? - the familiar voice of the leader is heard. - I’ve seen it, I’ve already seen it.
The leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov appeared at the headquarters with his guards as if out of nowhere. But he already knew everything.
The task is to track down violations as detailed as possible and report them to the media,” Zyuganov gave instructions to his comrades and again left somewhere.
And we bought gifts for March 8th. Where are they? I want one here... - Gennady Andreevich said to his assistant at the exit from the headquarters.
“Oh, now,” said the assistant.
Complaints continued to flow into headquarters in a continuous stream.
But by 3:00 p.m., the on-duty employee of the reception of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation told the CPRF couriers that he would no longer accept complaints - "there is no one to process them."
Moscow, on site No. 1927 Tsaritsyno A citizen was detained who tried to vote using someone else's absentee certificate. An act was drawn up, a video was recorded, data was recorded, and he was detained by the police.
Tula. Webcam software is being opened at polling stations. In this case, the chairmen of the PECs refer to the corresponding instructions of the governor. In a number of areas the cameras do not work at all. On some, cameras film the ceiling
Tambov. Plot No. 802. The ballot box is blocked from the webcam ornamental shrub, and the commission members hid from the camera, sitting opposite the light.
Pavel Kanygin, working at the headquarters of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Nina Petlyanova, staff correspondent for Novaya in St. Petersburg
Site No. 1830, Nagatinsky backwater. Observers record many violations here.
So, today employees of the Zamoskvoretsky market came to this site centrally. The market director explained the mass participation as follows: the market supposedly has a “continuous cycle of work,” employees were unable to take absentee ballots ahead of time and therefore they will vote “based on personal statements.” And they voted.
In addition, servicemen from one of the units came to this polling station today and voted... without absentee or personal applications at all. Also, employees of this precinct went to voters’ homes and collected 50 ballots in two hours. Although it is unrealistic to collect such a number of ballots in two hours - on average, one voter at home spends 8-10 minutes, or even more...
In connection with all the facts of violations in this area, observers called the police. But neither the police nor the TEC chairman “found any violations.”
Irina Gordienko, working as part of a team of mobile observers from the Citizen Observer organization
According to observers from Yabloko, who work partly outside polling stations, mass deliveries of “carousel workers” have been recorded in the capital.
Thus, to polling station No. 2061, five “minibuses” with the inscription “Young Guard” brought young people to vote who could not explain their presence at the polling station. Employees of Perspektiva Tushino LLC were brought to polling station No. 2773, and employees of the Mostotrest organization were brought to polling station No. 2968. Employees of the Ostankinskaya hotel are brought by bus to vote at polling station No. 653, where the chairman of the commission issues absentee ballots to people, Yabloko observers report. - And also to polling station No. 3188, voters without Moscow registration are brought in the same buses, where they vote using additional lists and without absentee ballots.
We managed to record the license plates of some Vehicle"Carouselmen". Namely, people were brought to station No. 2857 by Mercedes bus, license plate T050OM177, and to station No. 2199, Volkswagen buses, license plate E671 SO, and Gazelle buses, license plate B428 R, brought builders to vote. This is the second time that the same Gazelle is bringing people to vote at polling station No. 1767.
Observers called the police. They are waiting for help.
Mikhail Blokhin
Voting has been suspended at polling station number 70 in the Meshchansky district of Moscow. As members of the commission say, due to a major violation, which one is unclear. In the morning, military personnel voted there by absentee ballot. Judging by the video, the area is restless.
At polling station No. 1731, the chairman of the commission, Alla Oreshko, drew up an act and is going to remove the observer from the polling station because he did not stand upright during the playing of the Russian anthem.
At station No. 1466, members of the commission compile lists of elderly people. It was explained to the observer that this was being done because a tea party would be organized after the voting. Immediately after the opening, about 100 Mosvodokanal employees arrived at polling station No. 77 to vote using absentee ballots. At station No. 1770, 52 Gormost employees are included in the lists. Mosgortrans workers vote en masse in PEC No. 3174. At station No. 1711, the commission is going to add 700 students to the additional list, using their passport data, student cards and a letter from the students. 150 students lined up at PEC 104. At the same time, observers do not have the opportunity to control the issuance of ballots; the chairman of the commission refuses to show the documents. At the Vympel plant (PEC 1172), today is declared a working day and employees are asked to vote for a certain candidate for triple time off. The same people vote at polling stations No. 2164 and 2166; in addition, military school cadets were brought there. Students of the Academy of the Ministry of Emergency Situations who did not belong to precinct 500 were nevertheless attached to the main lists. At polling station No. 2009, 144 people voted according to the list without absentee ballots. A bus with workers who had previously voted at other polling stations arrived at polling station No. 2841. At polling station No. 2586, older people are voting en masse using absentee ballots. Most of them are registered at one table.
According to reports Lenta.ru and “New Region”.
14.30 I sit in Moscow PEC 539 as a member of the commission with the right of advisory vote. Briefly, our name is PSG, and there are only two of us - me (formally from A Just Russia) and Andrey from the communists. Also helping us is the candidate Gunkov, who is running for the municipal elections from the Socialist Revolutionaries. And there is also a girl Katya from presidential candidate V. Putin present as an observer.
I can’t report any sensations about violations yet, except for natural shortcomings in the work of the commission. The secretary of the commission, Tatyana Alekseevna, attacked me immediately, as soon as I offered to get acquainted, she was supported by other members of the commission: “For as long as we’ve been working, this has never happened, we managed normally without observers!” Well, of course they tried to prohibit viewing voter lists and filming the polling station. But Chairman Ivan Iosifovich stood up for my right. The chairman of the commission generally gives the impression of a normal guy. He is the deputy director of the college for some issues. They have a relaxed Monday, and tomorrow, when our women from the commission take a break from election day, oh, they’ll probably give him a hard time for being liberal with us!
They tried to expel Andrei from the commission for some incorrectly drawn up piece of paper, PSG from the communists, but the same complaints were made against Katya from the GDP. So everything is in balance.
We have, of course, a curator from the administration, a heavily pregnant girl, who, in response to my question, “in what capacity are you here?” She answered: “Yes, I don’t know myself, they sent me, and I’m sitting here.” I asked the chairman on what basis the girl was here, the chairman muttered something doomedly, after which it turned out that all the documents from some municipal candidate had been issued for the girl. And she's a PSG, just like me. Only then did secretary Tatyana Alekseevna include her in the list of those present at the station.
A wrong registration was discovered in someone's apartment, even the chairman of Tika came to find out. But these are all, I think, little things. Our main sensation is that now, at 14:00, about half of the list has already voted. The commission has probably not seen anything like this since Soviet times! Candidate Gunkov stated: because the people are fed up!
Olga Bobrova
15:50 At polling station No. 364 in Surgut, several people immediately discovered that someone had already voted for them.
Our observers called the prosecutor’s office to verify the personal data and signatures of those who allegedly “voted,” explained the head of the mobile group of Prokhorov’s headquarters, Sergei Voropaev. - During the inspection, the chairman of the EC explained this by saying that voters allegedly abandoned the polling station at the end of February.
The victims claim that they did nothing of the kind. They write statements to the prosecutor.
Mikhail Blokhin
15.50 Yabloko names the most common election violations in St. Petersburg
Observers from the Yabloko party are also counting violations. According to their information as of 15:00, the most common violations at polling stations in St. Petersburg:
Removal of observers, advisory committee members and journalists (PEC No. 1082, 547, 598, 39, 96, 205, 1875, 1540, 1641, 531, 797)
Refusals to register as observers, members of commissions with advisory voting rights and journalists (PEC No. 191, 369, 370, 8, 6, 1434, 749)
Requirements for voting members of commissions to sign a blank protocol on voting results (PEC No. 176)
Lack of copies of the protocol (PEC No. 424)
Violations in working with voter lists (PEC No. 1226, 277, 1818)
Restricting the work of observers and journalists in PEC No. 1625, 1540
Nina Petlyanova, staff correspondent for Novaya in St. Petersburg
15.50 By 18:00 (local time) in Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, 51.52% of voters had voted in the Russian presidential elections, the regional election commission reported
The chairman of the regional election commission, Lyudmila Vetrova, at her press conference recalled the overall results of voter turnout in the last presidential elections: in 2000 - 60.49 percent, in 2004 - 54.86 percent, in 2008 54.89 percent. 49.09 percent of the total number of island voters came to the State Duma elections 3 months ago.
So people became more active.
As always, Kuril residents lead in turnout - North Kuril region - 61.27%, Yuzhno-Kuril region - 61.17%, Kuril region - 59.54%
The least turnout was observed in the cities of Southern Sakhalin - Dolinsk, Aniva, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk - about 50%.
In principle, voting is taking place more calmly than in previous State Duma elections. So far, as observers from the regional center have reported, there are only a few obvious violations. Thus, precinct 358 of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk additionally requested 500 ballots. It turns out that it “split into two”: the pre-trial detention center employees voted at one address with one ballot box, and the voters under investigation voted at another address, with a different ballot box. Naturally, the observers could not split their minds and wrote a complaint to the election commission, and are planning to file a lawsuit tomorrow in the city court.
And at polling station No. 321 of the regional center, observers were not given a voter book, citing secret information - it was about voting in military unit No. 2067. The observers drew up a report and took it to the territorial election commission... They confirmed that yes, the information about the composition of voters in the military unit is secret... Another lawsuit is being prepared.
In Severo-Kurilsk, the purchase of a vote in the mayoral elections was recorded - 5 thousand rubles.
So far, the results are just being calculated, but observers note that Putin is in the lead - with a margin of one and a half times from the other contenders. We were surprised by the results of Prokhorov, who received more votes in many polling stations than Zhirinovsky and Mironov.
Olga Vasilyeva, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
15.27 According to the estimates of “St. Petersburg observers”, the number of violations is already in the hundreds
264 violations of election legislation, 141 removal or non-admission of observers, 6 stuffing of ballots (only one has been officially confirmed by law enforcement agencies so far), 8 “carousels” by 15:00 were counted by representatives of the association “Observers of St. Petersburg”. They work today at many polling stations in the city and record all such cases. For each of them, a complaint is drawn up, which is then submitted to the City Election Commission.
Thus, at site No. 1299 on Zverinskaya Street, 21 (economic vocational lyceum), “Observers of St. Petersburg” recorded several stuffings at once.
In PEC No. 1827 in the Central District, a “carousel” was recorded: a Ford Transit bus, number B 686 XC 98, carries elderly women around the polling stations, reports Observers of St. Petersburg. In the premises of PEC No. 1695 on Dimitrova Street, 10, bldg. 3 (school No. 205), the same young man voted twice, dressed in different clothes.
In addition, “Observers of St. Petersburg” suspect a carousel in PEC No. 340, which is located in school No. 137 on Vavilov Street, building 8, building 2. According to them, a member of the commission has a red and green ruler on his desk. In addition, a large flow of people is constantly drawn to this table.
And in PEC No. 818, the election commission gives gifts to young voters. For this purpose, in the main list, opposite some names, notes are made in pencil: “present.”
Nina Petlyanova, staff correspondent for Novaya in St. Petersburg
15.21 Omsk. Dormitory residents are denied the right to elect city council deputies
At polling station No. 349 in the city of Omsk, says human rights activist Valentin Kuznetsov, a member of the district commission, students and university employees living in dormitories are deprived of the opportunity to vote in the elections of city council deputies. In his opinion, this is a violation of the Law “On Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights”, according to which the voting lists for elections to local authorities include citizens not only registered in the territory of the municipality, but also registered at the place of residence.
In the same area, Kuznetsov says, residents of a number of apartment buildings on Yakovleva, 30th and 33rd North streets, the lists do not indicate apartment numbers, which is also a violation of the election law.
Georgy Borodyansky, correspondent. Novaya Gazeta Omsk
15.15 In St. Petersburg at 12 o'clock voter turnout is 10.62%
This is approximately 3% higher than in the Duma elections last December.
At the Duma campaign by this time (12 o’clock on December 4), the turnout was 7.04%, Deputy Chairman of the City Election Commission Dmitry Krasnyansky told Novaya.
According to the City Election Commission, voter turnout at polling stations at 10 a.m. in the Northern capital was 2.5%. As Alexander Gnetov, the head of the City Electoral Committee, clarified to Novaya, this is about 85 thousand people.
On December 4, 2011, the turnout in St. Petersburg at 10 am was 1.2 - 1.3 percent. On March 2, 2008, in the Russian presidential elections, voter turnout at that time was 3.14 percent.
Nina Petlyanova, staff correspondent for Novaya in St. Petersburg
15.10 Omsk. Long lines form for ballots
At many polling stations in the city, Omsk residents have to stand in huge queues to fulfill their civic duty. The reason for this is not so much the rush turnout (although, according to the regional election commission, it is significantly higher than in December - about 40% of residents of the Omsk region voted at 3 pm), but the inexplicable crampedness of the voting premises.
At polling station No. 349, as Valentin Kuznetsov, chairman of the regional human rights committee, who is a member of the district commission, told Novaya, the elections “for some reason were driven into the smallest room, although in the same building of the construction college there are spacious halls - assembly and sports - empty ". Many citizens, according to Kuznetsov, after standing in line, leave without voting. The same picture, he says, is in three more polling stations (Nos. 355, 356 and 357), and this is only in one electoral district.
The same problem, we were told in the regional branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, is also in the Omsk suburb: for example, in the village of Svetly, where cadets and officers of the OTII (Omsk Tank Institute) vote, civilians have to wait about an hour for access to the ballot boxes.
The long line at the registration desk, reports the SuperOmsk website, even the speaker of the city council, Sergei Alekseev, and his wife had to stand.
Georgy Borodyansky, correspondent. Novaya Gazeta Omsk
At 15:00 the turnout in the Krasnoyarsk Territory was 39%. Mainly due to rural areas and military, closed towns, large cities have low turnout. On the eve of the elections, Novaya already wrote that the authorities began to work specifically to reduce turnout in unreliable territories and entire classes. Thus, the Siberian Federal University was dissolved for a week-long unplanned vacation. The students dispersed to different regions of the region and were therefore unable to vote: few received absentee ballots, and there simply weren’t enough of them - many people reported this. On March 4, it was also empty at the voting stations for students of the Siberian Technological University: as it turns out, they were also sent out of harm’s way for a week-long vacation, the students went home.
At the 296th precinct, students with temporary registration, who had not yet gone home, were still not allowed to vote: citing Churov’s letter, they were required to have student ID cards in addition to their passports. No one warned students about this innovation in advance. Student Natalya Tarasova, who had all her documents in hand, discovered that someone had already received a ballot for her and signed for her.
Alexey Tarasov, personal correspondent "New", Krasnoyarsk
14.30. At the request of journalists and observers at polling station 3019, the entries in the book of absentee ballot voters and the number of absentee ballots remaining with the commission were counted. The number coincided - 144. However, according to the observer's calculations, about half of the 600 people voted by absentee ballot.
Evgeniy Feldman
14.25 Omsk. The district is filled with campaigning for a “poor” candidate
At the polling stations of one of the city districts, from the morning until now there has been vigorous campaigning for the candidate for city council deputy (independent, but supported by the Omsk mayor’s office) Vyacheslav Vasiliev. It involves, as Andrei Alekhin, one of the leaders of the Omsk branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, told Novaya, a huge number of vehicles, on the windows of which there are calls to vote for him. Cars, buses and Gazelles with these inscriptions surround all the polling stations of the district in which this candidate is running - probably very wealthy, although according to the declaration he submitted to the election commission, his income for 2011 was only 100 thousand rubles.
“In the morning we reported this violation to the City Electoral Committee,” says A. Alekhin, “after which the cars were driven away from the polling stations, but now they have appeared there again.”
In the same district, according to users of the Omsk forum, “obituaries” were pasted up at night, announcing the “sudden death” of one of Vasiliev’s main competitors in these elections.
Georgy Borodyansky
13.59 Severnoe Chertanovo, Kirovogradskaya st., 8, polling station at school No. 851. A group of “carousel workers” came here with a large number of absentee ballots. These same “carousel workers” voted at polling stations No. 1951, No. 1961, No. 1966
When a group of mobile observers spotted the stuffing at polling station No. 851, the carouselers immediately ran out into the street to their bus (T 432 AK 199th region).
Irina Gordienko, working as part of a team of mobile observers from the Citizen Observer organization
13.50 Yabloko observers are not allowed into polling stations
What already wrote Novaya Gazeta, on the eve of the presidential elections, information appeared that the head of the CEC sent an order to the election commissions to impede the work of observers from the Yabloko Rossii party newspaper.
The reason for this decision was the CEC's unexpected doubts about the right of the party chairman to sign editorial certificates of observers. However, yesterday, having received clarifications from Roskomnadzor, CEC Deputy Chairman Leonid Ivlev admitted in an official letter addressed to Sergei Mitrokhin that the head of the party, as the founder of the publication, can act as an editor.
Despite this, this morning, IPCC Secretary Fayas Khalilulin sent a letter to the territorial election commissions, in which he invalidated the correspondent certificates signed by Yabloko party chairman Sergei Mitrokhin, party spokesman Igor Yakovlev explained. - Now the representative of the Yabloko party in the CEC, Elena Dubrovina, has already contacted the chairman of the Moscow City Electoral Committee, Valentin Gorbunov, and demanded not to interfere with the work of Yabloko observers. The department's final decision is expected soon.
On March 4, at 11:00 am, experts from the GOLOS Association held a press conference on the first reports from polling stations. As Novaya Gazeta was told in the association itself, a significant part of the reports both from Moscow and from the regions are related to the organized transportation of voters to the polling stations and illegal absentee voting.
In just one day, about 2,000 calls were received to the “Map of Violations” hotline phone alone. Information about violations is posted by operators on the project website www.kartanarusheniy.org. According to the head of the election monitoring department of the GOLOS association Andrey Buzin, a large number of reports of violations are the result of civic activity, which appeared due to the fact that the state does not fulfill its functions of holding elections.
Before election day, there were many reports of pressure on voters to get absentee ballots and turn them in to leaders. “As a result, we see that absentee ballots are over in Moscow, the Far East and other regions,” said Lilia Shibanova, executive director of the GOLOS Association. - Even many members of the commissions could not get absentee ballots in order to vote at the polling stations where they will work throughout the day. This situation has developed despite the fact that the CEC printed more absentee ballots than in previous elections.”
By 11 a.m., the GOLOS association has so far received information from 10 regions: Kurgan, Perm, Barnaul, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Irkutsk, Novokuznetsk, Gorno-Altaisk and Ufa, where GOLOS correspondents record compliance with the procedures prescribed by law at the polling stations . In total, GOLOS will receive data from its correspondents from 45 regions.
Thus, at 7% of the polling stations, ballot boxes were not presented before the opening of the polling station. In 17% of cases, campaign materials are hung closer than 50 meters from polling stations. 22% of voter lists were not compiled. Collective transportation of voters was recorded at 19% of polling stations.
“People who are brought to the polling stations in an organized manner are the same supposedly freely voting citizens who either received absentee ballots in advance, or were simply included in the lists,” Andrei Buzin emphasized. - In addition, special areas are being created at enterprises. Firstly, these areas are difficult for observers to access. Secondly, since people will vote at their place of work, it is likely that they will do so under the control of management.”
27% of violations are related to the compilation of lists for voting outside the premises. In addition, at 13% of polling stations, correspondents were denied presence at the exit voting. At 26% of polling stations, mobile voting boxes are located out of sight of observers, which is also a violation.
Also at the press conference, information was announced on the presence of observers from different candidates at the polling stations. According to GOLOS, observers from candidate Zhirinovsky are present at 30% of polling stations, from Zyuganov - at 79%, from Mironov - at 29%, from Prokhorov - at 56% of polling stations, from Putin - at 81%. Representatives of parliamentary candidates for local elections make up about 22% of observers at polling stations.
13.40. The lights and internet in the GOLOS press center are back on.
Ivan Zhilin
13.31 In the independent press center of GOLOS, the lights are turned off and the Internet does not work.
Ivan Zhilin
13:30 The first fact of stuffing was officially recorded in St. Petersburg
Nina Petlyanova, staff correspondent for Novaya in St. Petersburg
13:20 In Kirov, simultaneously with the presidential elections of the Russian Federation, elections to the city duma are being held. Since the very beginning of voting, numerous cases of outright bribery of voters have been noted.
Today, on the day of voting and the implementation of the “project,” the police were called to one of the addresses in the 16th city district. Representatives of the parties A Just Russia and the Communist Party of the Russian Federation managed to intercept a list with the names of hundreds of people who should receive money on voting day. Police officers, representatives of the city election commission, and investigators are working on the spot.
Moreover, for recording violations at the 426th polling station, freelance correspondent for the Bloknot newspaper Alexander Robotinsky ended up in the police department. Robotinsky witnessed violations at polling station No. 426. Near the polling station, three young men put certain stamps on the certificates of “people's observers” and told voters where to go to receive money supposedly for working as an election observer. When the correspondent tried to draw the attention of official observers from political parties present at the station to this fact, he was detained by police officers. According to Alexander, who was taken to the police station, he was accused of campaigning against United Russia.
Boris Bronstein, staff correspondent for Novaya Gazeta, Kirov
13.25 The head of the Ramenki district administration, Igor Okunev, attacked Novaya correspondent Diana Khachatryan.
13.20 On the K856ka bus, approximately 20 people from Moscow were brought to Khimki, although the organizer of the trip said that the “carousel” would be in Noginsk. Three journalists also took part in the stuffing, including a Novaya photojournalist. Nobody controlled how they vote in PECs Nos. 3020 and 3019.
Upon returning to the bus, the organizer, who introduced himself as Mikhail, took away that part of the absentee ballots that would have to be used in the second round; in return, the falsifiers received a thousand rubles. The commission had more than a hundred absentee ballots. In the end, the organizer drove off along Molodezhnaya Street in a car with dirty, barely visible license plates o323oo.
Apparently, Mikhail suspected that there was information about the upcoming “carousel” and therefore there was no stuffing. However, he bought a thousand rubles each for the second round.
In addition, two observers at PEC No. 3019 have their phones blocked; they are constantly receiving calls on their mobile phones.
Evgeniy Feldman
Organizer of the "carousel" Mikhail
Organizer's car
13.30 The first fact of stuffing was officially recorded in St. Petersburg
At polling station No. 118 - at a school on Nalichnaya Street, 32 building 2 - at about 12 o'clock the police recorded - and this is officially confirmed - the first stuffing of ballots. The woman (last and first names have not yet been released) was able, according to observers, to place a pack of 10-20 ballots into the ballot box. The stuffing was also noticed by employees of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
As Arkady Vishnev, a member of the precinct election commission with the decisive vote from the A Just Russia party, said, the observer from Mikhail Prokhorov was the first to notice the suspicious woman who was holding a stack of ballots in her hands. He did not have time to prevent the throw-in, but grabbed the stranger’s hand, but she broke free and rushed to the exit. There the police detained her and called an employee of the prosecutor's office.
The detainee is currently being interrogated. The woman has already admitted that she carried out the stuffing for a fee of 1 thousand rubles. The throw initiator is now being installed.
Nina Petlyanova, staff correspondent for Novaya in St. Petersburg
13.20 In Kirov, simultaneously with the presidential elections of the Russian Federation, elections to the city duma are taking place. Since the very beginning of voting, numerous cases of outright bribery of voters have been noted.
As the press service of the regional branch of A Just Russia told Novaya Gazeta, the United Russia party is implementing a unique project called People's Observer. During the pre-election period, citizens were offered to enter into an agreement on the basis of which they would become people's observers. At the same time, they explained that they would not have to conduct observations, but simply need to come to the polling stations on March 4, vote for the desired candidate and get a mark from the duty officer on the people's observer certificate that was issued to them. After that you will receive 500 rubles.
Today, on the day of voting and the implementation of the “project,” the police were called to one of the addresses in the 16th city district. Representatives of the parties A Just Russia and the Communist Party of the Russian Federation managed to intercept a list with the names of hundreds of people who should receive money on voting day (photo). Police officers, representatives of the city election commission, and investigators are working on the spot.
In a number of other cases, the police refused to go to the sites of violations.
Boris Bronstein, staff correspondent for Novaya Gazeta, Kirov
“So many normal guys got into trouble because of this”
Purchase of absentee ballots in Yaroslavl failed due to price dumping
The order for the purchase of absentee ballots arrived in Yaroslavl two weeks before the elections. Networkers - people involved in near-political network marketing - were chosen as contractors to fulfill the order.
Networkers are enterprising and completely apolitical young managers from the plow. They negotiate with customers and organize foremen - less enterprising, but very sociable young people who live in student dormitories, hang out in fan circles or “just in bars” and are ready to recruit a dozen or two of their friends for the right job. It is this shaky structure that, during the pre-election period, reliably provides people with the resources to post advertisements and collect signatures, to go door-to-door and to attend rallies.
So, for each absentee vote, network workers were promised 1300-1400 rubles. “The networker keeps 600 for himself, the foremen - the middle level - received 700-800 rubles, respectively, and how much the electorate received is up to you. From Tutaeva (a city near Yaroslavl - E.K.) some people even sold their absentee ballots for hundreds. But this is rare. Now everyone is literate, so on average 500-600 were asked for anything. It turned out to be a chain - the person selling his voice knew only the foreman, the foreman knew the networker, and the networker knew the customer.”
Customer - attention! - represented by Nasraddin Alekperov and Artem Kozlov. Alekperov is the commissar of the Nashi movement. Until last summer, Kozlov headed the Yaroslavl branch of the “Steel” movement (another Seliger project - E.K.), however, having found himself at the center of a media scandal, he was forced to formally resign from his post, effectively remaining the head. Negotiations with networkers were conducted by activists of these movements. They announced a tempting price.
“In short, a gold rush has really begun in the city,” say networkers. - Everyone understood that you can raise money very quickly. The guys were tearing out the veins, taking these absentee ballots out of thin air.” The echoes of this “absentee hysteria” reached Novaya long before the culmination of the story itself. Thus, students of the Yaroslavl Pedagogical University complained that group curators (who are also foremen) almost forcefully force people to take absentee ballots.
In ten days, “networkers” collected more than three thousand absentee ballots. However, on March 1, when the payment was supposed to be made, Alekperov and Kozlov announced that the price of the certificate had dropped to 600 rubles. Network experts are sure that the idea of dumping belonged to Kozlov, and Alekperov only supported his enterprising comrade. “Either it’s a thirst for profit, or they were told from the center that prices need to be reduced,” say networkers, leaning, of course, towards the first - automatic and therefore almost innocent theft. The most competent networkers use the term monopsony - buyer's monopoly - to describe the situation that gave the Nashists a free hand.
“That is, they calculated everything correctly,” the networkers explain. - The certificates have already been collected, they are already in our hands, we have nowhere to go. Sell at the new price." “The chaos has begun. One says - 600, the other says - 700. And it is clear that in four days no one will need these absentee ballots for nothing.”
“And it turns out that networkers and foremen worked for free. Some even went into negative territory. You can’t explain to every electorate that the calculation will come later. I had to invest my own money.”
But the Nashi movement underestimated the inner pride of the vote buyers. Rejecting the shameful dumping, the networkers returned the absentee ballots to the foremen, and they honestly returned the unused votes to the electorate. In the hope of getting your investment back, of course. The electorate returned some of the money, but squeezed some, and the financial losses of the networkers amounted to forty thousand per nose.
“But the worst thing is that the relationships in the established network have deteriorated. So many normal guys got into trouble because of this. The electorate made claims against the foremen, and they made claims against us, the network workers. Still, it is built on personal relationships, on trust. And here is such a setup.”
Ordinary Nashists, who acted as negotiators, now move through the streets with caution. One has already been kicked - in the literal sense of the word.
Unfortunately, it was not possible to contact Artem Kozlov, who, according to networkers, came up with the idea of dumping - due to recent events, he changed his phone number. But on the eve of the elections, we called Nassradin Alekperov and introduced ourselves as pedagogical students, to whom the unsold absentee ballots were returned. We wondered if it was possible to drive 600 at a time, bypassing the foreman.
Nassradin sadly explained that absentee ballots are no longer needed, and the networkers are to blame for this: “Unfortunately, it so happened that the guys who were doing this for you - foremen, and so on - they broke the price, they increased it so much and waited until they will pay that price. And the buyer accordingly wanted to buy cheaper. They didn’t want to give it away cheaper, and then it turned out that that’s it, the topic was over.” But even when talking with the abandoned students, the commissioner could not resist making a typical Nashi trick: “The only thing I can offer you is to go to a concert in Moscow for free. We get ready at eight, leave at half past eight, then there will be an entertainment event in connection with the end of the elections and a continuation in the form of a concert - and in the evening we return back.”
“But Yaroslavl turns out to be the cleanest city - we won’t participate in carousels,” the networkers sadly sum up. They, in turn, of course, would like to declare that they will no longer deal with the Nashi movement. But it doesn't work. “Well, let's take this world seriously. It’s not the Socialist-Revolutionaries who will come to waste money after the elections. And where did they get it from? Monopsony is such a thing. Ruthless."
Elena KOSTYUCHENKO
P.S. According to local political information, the purchase was ordered from the federal center and they tried to carry it out SECRETLY from the local EdRa. Because the Yaroslavl United Russia members did not want to cast votes - they had to calmly elect a mayor, and absentee voting deprives a person of the right to vote in regional elections. Confusion and vacillation, such things.
13.05 The conflict occurred at the 294th polling station in the Oktyabrsky district of Krasnoyarsk
A convoy of military personnel arrived to vote, and they tried to register them with an additional list that was not numbered, bound, or sealed. At the same time, a representative of the military unit, as observers report, took charge of the situation instead of the chairman of the election commission. During the investigation, the soldiers were either removed from the site or brought back again, and it turned out that this method of voting had been practiced for 20 years, and no one had noticed anything criminal about it. At the same site, some other oddities were noticed, which, however, raise questions not so much for the election commissions, but for the district administration and the Federal Migration Service: one after another, residents of a small, crumbling hut (Volochaevskaya St., 14) came to vote - it turned out that 296 people were registered there , even more, 316, are registered in the non-existent house No. 16 on Partizanskaya Street. In the neighboring area, 295th, the picture is the opposite: people who have been living for several years in houses No. 41 on Chkalova Street, No. 28 on Dachnaya Street, did not find themselves in the voter lists.
At many polling stations, observers were prohibited from filming, and - this is almost universal - they were placed so far away from the commissions that they were unable to actually observe the progress of the elections.
According to the head of the regional election commission, Konstantin Bocharov, the chairman of one of the territorial election commissions was taken to the hospital with a heart attack. According to our information, this happened in Shushenskoye.
Alexey Tarasov, personal correspondent "New", Krasnoyarsk
12.45 Moscow, Strogino, station No. 2913. From the very morning, citizens are brought to the site every now and then by bus. On this moment observers have already counted 22 such buses. The precinct chairman does not respond to complaints from observers.
Note that this polling station has been on the so-called “black list” since the December elections - a large number of ballot stuffings were recorded here.
Polina Privalova and Anastasia Antipova, working as part of a mobile team of observers from the Citizen Observer organization.
12.37 United Russia observer in St. Petersburg provokes a fight at the polling station
The first fights began at polling stations in St. Petersburg. This was reported by Novaya's own correspondents, who are now at school No. 98 - on the territory of the precinct No. 350 (Grazhdansky Prospekt, building 92, building 3). According to observers, the observer from United Russia provokes representatives of other parties and independent observers filming to use force. The man deliberately shows his face close up to the camera, then shouts that his rights have been violated and starts a fight.
Nina Petlyanova, staff correspondent for Novaya in St. Petersburg
12.30 Workers are taken to polling station No. 213 (Kochnovsky Proezd, Aeroport metro station) on children's buses, and they go to vote in groups. They refuse to say what company they are from. They only told the observers that no one was forcing them to vote, they were simply brought from another city in an organized manner. More than 140 people have already arrived. This precinct had very poor turnout in the last election. Andrey Grechka, an observer from the Yabloko Rossii newspaper, told Novaya.
Olga Osipova
12.12 Krasnodar region. False statements and illegal lists,
At station No. 20 50 in Krasnodar, forgery of statements is possible. The voting group at home includes Irina Sergeeva, a member of the PEC with a decisive vote. She said the following: “We came to the address Platanovy Boulevard, 9, because the precinct election commission gave us this address. Allegedly, people there wanted to vote at home. It turned out that the residents were not aware that they wanted to vote. Then where does their statement come from?”
In Belorechensk, people go to station No. 06 10 and are included in a separate list. Moreover, according to Yabloko observers, this list consists of separate sheets without a heading. The forms are filled out personally by the chairman of the PEC, Tatyana Goncharenko.
At polling station No. 42 12, which is located in Slavyansk-on-Kuban, a large number of students who did not have temporary registration were noticed. According to the Yabloko party, their names are included in the additional voter lists, which is a violation of the law.
Representative of TEC “Slavyanskaya” Sergei Serpokrylov said that everything is taking place in accordance with the law: “this polling station is intended specifically for student voting. Their names, as required by law, were included in the lists three days before the vote.”
However, the deputy Chairman of the regional branch of the Yabloko party Andrei Filimonov clarified: “they are talking about the main lists. It might really be legal there. But we know that names are included in additional lists. And this is a violation that can be used for falsification.”
12.12 Tula Ballot boxes for voting at home were removed from polling station No. 965. However, members of the election commission did not allow observers with them. They tried to follow them. However, their road was blocked by a black Range Rover with license plate a777km. A man got out and stabbed the observers' car wheels with a knife.
Elena Kostyuchenko
12.10. A mobile detachment of observers from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation records violations in Moscow and in the regions.
Violations in Moscow sections
Four buses with citizens wishing to vote by absentee ballot arrived at polling station No. 2935.
Section No. 213 - mass transportation of workers in the field of electrical services by buses.
Section No. 2841 - transportation by bus (A891AC region 190) of citizens with absentee ballots.
Violations in the regions
Khabarovsk. At polling station No. 177, voters were given 50 ballots already marked for candidate Putin
Derbent (Dagestan). Students are transported to the precincts, accompanied by police.
Pavel Kanygin, working as part of a mobile team of observers from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
12.07 In St. Petersburg at 10 am the turnout was 2.5%
According to the City Election Commission, in the Northern capital, voter turnout at polling stations at 10 a.m. was 2.5%. As Alexander Gnetov, head of the State Election Commission, told Novaya, these data correspond to the turnout for the December 4 elections. St. Petersburg residents vote most actively in the Nevsky and Kronstadt districts. More passive than others - in the Vyborg and Frunzensky districts of the city. Alexandra Gnetov also noted that many complaints have been recorded about problems with accessing observers to polling stations.
Nina Petlyanova, staff correspondent for Novaya in St. Petersburg
12.05 Moscow. Strogino, polling station No. 3185. Communist Party deputy Valery Rashkin urgently sent a request to Prosecutor General Chaika and the head of the Central Election Commission Churov due to the fact that 1.5 thousand people who were brought by buses are voting at polling station No. 3185 right now. Currently the site is completely clogged.
Deputy Razhkin immediately sent requests to Chaika and Churov with a request to immediately intervene in the situation. The ex-prefect of the Northern District of Moscow, Oleg Mitvol, has already left for this site.
Pavel Kanygin, working as part of a mobile team of observers from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
11.59 Krasnodar. Unnumbered lists and prohibition on video recording
According to the Krasnodar regional branch of the Yabloko party, violations were committed in the Kubansky district of Krasnodar. At station No. 22 44, the correspondent of the Yabloko Kubani newspaper was prohibited from filming. Despite this, the journalist made a video recording, but at the moment members of the PEC are demanding that it be deleted.
A similar case is provided for in Article 144 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, “Obstruction of the legitimate professional activities of journalists.” The crime is punishable by imprisonment for up to two years.
A violation was also recorded at polling station No. 22 45. Additional voter lists are on separate sheets; they are not bound or numbered. A correspondent for the Yabloko Kuban newspaper pointed out this violation to the chairman of the PEC, but there was no reaction.
« New Newspaper"contacted the Prikubanskaya TIC, on whose territory these sites are located. However, the deputy Chairman Galina Tikhonenko could not explain anything, citing her busy schedule.
Evgeny Titov, Novaya correspondent for the Southern Federal District
11.45 Chita. "Carousel" with the participation of railway workers
As Novaya was told by the Transbaikal Human Rights Center, in the city of Chita, according to members of the Observation 2012 project, several signs of falsification at polling stations have already been recorded in the first half of the day.
According to the coordinator of the Observation 2012 project, Marina Savvateeva, at 8 a.m., at polling station No. 3 in school No. 5, a queue of 25 people lined up with absentee voting certificates was discovered. A bus with license plate C768AK was waiting for them on the street. The driver admitted that the bus belonged to the management of the Trans-Baikal Railway, all the people who arrived on it were employees of the management. “This is a gross violation of paragraph 16 of Article 69 of the Law “On Elections of the President of the Russian Federation.” We sent a complaint with photographs to the Regional Election Commission,” explained Marina Savateeva.
On March 2, the Trans-Baikal Human Rights Center distributed to the media a copy of a telegram signed by the deputy head of the Trans-Baikal Railway, Anatoly Mishin, demanding that all subordinate structures of the railway take strict control over the turnout of railway workers at polling stations.
According to Marina Savvateeva, the second case, indicating signs of election fraud, was recorded in Chita at about one o'clock in the afternoon. An advisory member of the territorial commission toured the polling stations and found, near one of them, approximately 100 military personnel under the command of an officer, who were brought in an organized truck to vote. After listening to the conversation between the commander and his subordinates, the TEC member realized that they had already voted at another polling station. A member of the commission followed the truck in his car to find out which area the servicemen were heading to. But he was stopped by plainclothes officers who accused him of acting suspiciously. While the observer was explaining himself and showing his TEC member ID, the truck disappeared. According to Marina Savvateeva, this situation suggests that elections are being rigged in the city based on the lists of military personnel voting at several polling stations under the cover of the special services.
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In addition, at about 11 a.m. in Chita, at the intersection of Babushkina and Verkholenskaya streets, traffic inspectors detained the driver of the mobile group of the public reception of candidate Prokhorov, Yulia Funtikova. The basis for the detention was a sticker with a portrait of the candidate and the words “We demand more” placed on the car window. The police escorted Funtikova to the magistrate's court to face administrative charges. “This mobile group does not work at the polling stations, but is responsible for communication with the press. According to the law, all campaigning placed before voting day at a distance of at least 50 meters from the polling station can remain in place,” explained project coordinator Savvateeva. The detained Funtikova was provided with a lawyer to protect her interests in court.
The “Voice” association, the League of Voters and the “Citizen Observer” organization participate in the “Observation 2012” project.
11.37 PEC No. 2853, Sokol district. Three buses of public sector employees arrived at station No. 2853 in Moscow this morning. They all voted at this polling station and left on the same buses. Those who voted themselves told Novaya correspondents that they are builders by profession. Novaya correspondents asked police officer Motylev, who was on duty at the polling station, to check the documents of the voters. He refused and played for time in every possible way until the last of the state employees left the site. A complaint was sent to Mr. Motylev on the hotline at the Central Internal Affairs Directorate.
As for the chairman of this TEC, he did not react to what was happening, moreover, he tried to expel the Novaya correspondents from the site. However, soon the chairman of the TEC, Anatoly Gutman, stated that he himself had “suspicions that so many people came,” but assured that he had checked all the passport data with the absentee ballots and did not find any violations. “I did everything I could,” Mr. Gutman said.
Anastasia Antipova, Polina Privalova, now working as part of a mobile team of observers from the organization “Citizen Observer”
11.32 In St. Petersburg, Yabloko observers are suspended from work and Prokhorov’s observers are denied registration
On Sunday morning in St. Petersburg, members of precinct election commissions from the Yabloko party were given orders to remove them from work. The minutes are dated today - March 4th. In this regard, Yabloko has already filed a complaint with the City Election Commission.
As Kirill Strakhov, a member of the bureau of the regional branch of the party, told Novaya, its representatives were refused entry into the territory of polling stations No. 481, 482 and 483.
Precinct No. 481 is located in “Kresty” (Arsenalnaya embankment, 7), polling station No. 482 is in pre-trial detention center No. 4 (Akademika Lebedeva Street, 39), election commission No. 483 is in pre-trial detention center No. 5 (Arsenalnaya Street, 11). According to Strakhov, members of the commission with voting rights from the Yabloko party were supposed to be on duty there today. The PEC chairmen explained their refusal to allow Yabloko members to work by saying that they were allegedly not included in the commission.
The TEC told us that the party had not agreed on the list of its representatives with the Federal Penitentiary Service for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region,” says Kirill Strakhov. - Meanwhile, we have all the necessary approvals. Although according to the law we are not supposed to make such approvals at all - this is the responsibility of the TEC. But a month ago, the party wrote a letter to the Federal Penitentiary Service, in which it indicated the names and passport details of its representatives. On March 2, a response came signed by the head of the department, Major General Igor Potapenko, who confirmed that on election day, party representatives would be freely allowed into the pre-trial detention centers.
In addition, as Nikolai Rybakov, head of the headquarters of Yabloko observers, told Novaya, at site No. 332 in the Kalininsky district, a so-called “station” was installed for observers. the “Pale of Settlement” (it is prohibited to move around the premises of the polling station), which cannot be crossed.
Also, in St. Petersburg, observers from candidate Mikhail Prokhorov were previously denied registration. As a result, many Prokhorovites today are forced to work for Yabloko.
Nina Petlyanova, staff correspondent for Novaya in St. Petersburg
11.32 Cars with 4 ballot boxes left polling station No. 962, but election officials did not allow observers with them. The police blocked their car and checked their documents.
22% of them are due to the fact that voter lists are not bound. At 7% of polling stations in the Far East and Siberia, there are an average of 4 observers per station.
During the press conference, a call was received that about 200 people had been transported by bus to precinct no. 3177 in Moscow.
11.26 At one of the polling stations in the south of Moscow, communist observers detained a “carousel worker” who, with an absentee certificate, tried to vote in someone else’s name.”
As part of a mobile group of communist observers, Sergei Udaltsov, the leader of the Left Front, is also traveling around Moscow. As he told Novaya, he has not yet recorded any major violations, except that the chairmen of TECs in most cases limit the work of observers: they ask them to sit in one place, not to move around the site, etc. Udaltsov points out to the chairmen of the commissions the illegality of such actions, and they, according to him, “are corrected.”
Pavel Kanygin, currently working as part of a mobile detachment of observers from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
10.57 Tula. In PECs Nos. 961, 964, 965, 966, instead of observers from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and members of the election commission, unknown people registered at each precinct. In this regard, representatives of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation came to precinct 964. The secretary of the station district committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation of Tula, Irina Fateeva, believes that some kind of spy has been found. Since the forms in the hands of dummies are valid. But the signatures are not real. We found some kind of spy. 66.65 - thrown out.
Elena Kostyuchenko
10.42 All absentee ballots have been distributed in St. Petersburg
As the city election commission confirmed to Novaya, the 80 thousand absentee ballots allocated by the Central Election Commission for St. Petersburg were sold out. All PECs (precinct election commissions) of the city reported by Saturday that they had issued all the coupons at their disposal for remote voting to citizens.
At the end of February, when it became clear that the certificates were selling like hot cakes, the city election commission ordered an additional 1.5 thousand coupons, Adel Suvorova, a member of the city election commission, told Novaya. - We would have ordered more, but we didn’t figure it out right away, and this procedure takes time. If people had been concerned in advance that they would not be able to vote at their place of registration on March 4, we would have requested another additional batch of coupons from the Central Election Commission. However, many citizens went to polling stations to cast absentee ballots only in the middle of this week.
Let us recall that for the Duma elections Moscow allocated 90 thousand absentee ballots to St. Petersburg. According to the GAS “Elections” system, 48,592 coupons were issued. 36,387 people voted on them.
Nina Petlyanova, staff correspondent for Novaya in St. Petersburg
10.34 Krasnodar. Flesh-colored identification marks are used to deceive video cameras.
One of the “carousel” participants, on condition of anonymity, told Novaya Gazeta the details of the falsification. If the information is of interest to law enforcement agencies, we will be able to provide a video recording of the interview.
“I was offered to take a pack of absentee ballots and go to the polling stations with them and vote. They give two thousand rubles for this,” our source said.
According to him, falsifications occur in the Kubansky district of Krasnodar. When a group of nine people gathers, each person receives 40 certificates. People are put into cars and taken to polling stations in an orderly manner. Having passed 10 sections, the group rests a bit and then travels along the same sections again. That is, it makes a circle. You are supposed to do 4 laps per day.
Thus, each group member must vote 40 times per day. This means that one group must give 360 votes per day. A group member has a flesh-colored rubber band wrapped around his finger. This is a sign by which employees of precinct election commissions identify falsifiers. It is impossible to examine these rubber bands from a distance. Moreover, the video camera does not see them. Also note that group members were instructed to wear dark or gray clothing.
To confirm or refute this information, Novaya Gazeta turned to the chairman of the Prikubanskaya territorial election commission, Lyudmila But. However, she was unable to comment on anything.
Evgeny Titov, Novaya correspondent for the Southern Federal District
10.10 Moscow. At polling station 3165 in the Obruchevsky district, within an hour after the start of voting, voter lists were sealed, Mikhail Rankov from Citizen Observer told Novaya. In addition, large groups of residents of other cities come to vote by absentee ballot.
10.10 Moscow. Observers from PECs 1800 and 3180 received 3 complaints about “carousels” at polling stations, Anatoly Chicherin, a member of the TEC with advisory voting rights, told Novaya.
10.02 Tula. Unknown people registered as observers and members of election commissions from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
In PECs 964 and 961, instead of observers from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and members of the election commission, unknown people registered at each precinct. At precinct 964, members of the election commission told Novaya that a total of 1,968 voters were assigned to precinct 964. The election commission secretary added that about 450 people will vote outside the PEC territory. However, they cannot say anything for sure yet, since the list is not numbered. The PEC also refused to view the register, citing the law on the protection of voters' rights. A little later, at the same site, the chairman of the election commission opened a safe with webcam equipment.
Elena Kostyuchenko
08.02 Ufa. Journalists are the first to be expelled from polling stations.
The main violations during the first two hours after the opening of polling stations in Ufa were related to the mass denial of media representatives to the polling stations and bans on video filming.
Precinct No. 28, Kalininsky district of Ufa - they do not allow correspondents of the newspaper "Yabloko Rossii", the channels Ren TV Ufa, "All Ufa", radio "Police Wave" - they require permission from the city election commission. They prohibit video recording - supposedly there is some kind of court decision in this regard. There is no “court decision”.
Precinct No. 304 - they do not allow the correspondent of the newspaper "Civil Voice" to enter, they demand that they be sent to this particular precinct.
Precinct 210 - a member of the precinct election commission with the right to an advisory vote was removed from the candidate Prokhorov - Oleg Osipov. 3 members of the PEC from Prokhorov came to this site at once - either they were a complete mess, or they were fake people. The YABLOKO party gave Osipov a referral from the Yabloko Rossii newspaper, but he was still not allowed in. A day earlier, this observer saw on a webcam the commission training on stuffing ballots during the vote count
Precinct 148 - the editorial assignment and a certified copy of the newspaper's registration were taken from the correspondent of the "Civil Voice" on the grounds that the commission needed the originals of these documents.
At sites 24 and 25 in the Kirovsky district of Ufa, media correspondents are prohibited from filming.
Artur Asafiev
The last region of Russia - the Kaliningrad region - joined the election marathon at 9 am. In the east of the country, voting began while it was still night in Moscow. At 8 a.m., polling stations opened in Moscow, and in Kamchatka and Chukotka, which had the highest turnout, by that hour almost half of the voters had already voted.
A special feature of the current elections is the large number of observers. In Moscow alone, more than half a million Russian and almost 700 international observers are monitoring the voting process.
Publication of voting data is prohibited until 21:00 Moscow time, when polling stations close in the Kaliningrad region. By this time, the candidates' election headquarters will begin to work, and central television channels will launch their live broadcasts of the election results. This is also related to the peculiarity of online broadcasts from polling stations: after the polling stations are closed in each region, the picture “freezes” until 21:00 Moscow time, and then continues from the same frame where it stopped. In any case, this is what Rostelecom, which implemented the project, assures, Newsru.com reports.
As news agencies note, another distinctive feature of the current elections is that Russians are not going to the polls everywhere more actively than they were four years ago, when Dmitry Medvedev became president as a result of the elections.
For most regions of Russia there is already data on voter turnout. Thus, the East of the country voted more actively than in the last presidential elections, but many regions of Siberia did not.
Chukotka. Voter turnout as of 15:00 local time (07:00 Moscow time) was 67.34%, reported RIA Novosti http://ria.ru/ Deputy Chairman of the Election Commission of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Oksana Talyzina. During the 2008 presidential elections in the Russian Federation, turnout data at 15:00 local time was not recorded, but current figures can be compared with turnout data in the previous presidential elections at 14:00, when 63.77% of voters in Chukotka voted.
Magadan Region. Voter turnout in the current presidential elections is 7% higher than in the presidential elections in 2008; by 15:00 local time, 40.88% of voters had already voted.
Khabarovsk region. As of 15:00 local time (8:00 Moscow time), more than 44% of voters had voted, no violations were registered at the polling stations, Oyars Mashkov, secretary of the regional election commission, told RIA Novosti.
Khakassia. By 12:00, 17.7% of voters (66.8 thousand people) had voted, the head of the election commission of Khakassia, Alexander Chumanin, told ITAR-TASS http://www.itar-tass.com/ to journalists: “This is slightly less than at the Duma elections in December 2011 and in previous presidential elections."
Tuva. By 10 a.m. local time, about 16% of voters came to the polling stations here. This is more than it was in the last Duma elections and the presidential elections of the Russian Federation four years ago.
Sverdlovsk region. Turnout, as of 10:00 Moscow time, was 4.8%. This is lower than in the presidential elections in 2008 (6.8%).
Kurgan region. The turnout at the elections in the first two hours of voting was 7.87%, which is 2.73% less than in 2008, the regional election commission told Interfax http://interfax.ru/.
Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. Turnout, as of 10:00 local time (8:00 Moscow time), was 8.68%. The election commission notes that this is much higher than in the State Duma elections in December.
Bashkiria. In the first two hours of polling stations' operation, 6.40% of voters voted.
