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00:01:11Well, we welcome everyone who has joined us, it's 8:00 PM
00:01:15in Moscow, which means that right now on the Russia-24 channel
00:01:19a special live broadcast is starting, tonight
00:01:22we will be with you all evening, as well as our correspondents and
00:01:26guests of the broadcast live following the elections.
00:01:35at this moment, polling stations are closing in Moscow and in other regions
00:01:38of central Russia. In an hour, polling stations will close in
00:01:42the Kaliningrad region, our westernmost region, and we will be able to talk
00:01:46not only about voter turnout, but also about the distribution of votes. Well,
00:01:50this is probably the most important thing, this is what interests all of us the most. Let us remind you
00:01:54that for all 3 days, from Friday to today, elections of various
00:01:57levels are taking place in Russia. Throughout the country, deputies are being elected.
00:02:10these are Mordovia, Tuva, Chechen Republic, Belgorod,
00:02:13Bryansk, Penza, Tver and Ulyanovsk
00:02:16regions, as well as Karachay- Cherkessia and North Ossetia, where
00:02:20the heads were elected by deputies of regional parliaments and Dagestan, where the heads
00:02:23of the Republic will soon be chosen by the People's Assembly, which, as it happened, in turn
00:02:27will be formed based on the results of the current elections. Well,
00:02:31right now, let's find out how Russian citizens are voting,
00:02:34particularly abroad, voting is also taking place there.
00:02:37On a direct line, with our special broadcast is
00:02:41the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova. Maria
00:02:44Vladimirovna, hello, we welcome you, thank you for joining
00:02:47us. Yes, good evening. Well,
00:02:51I say good evening Moscow time. I say
00:02:54this clarification not by chance, because indeed,
00:02:58all over the world, Russian citizens are voting,
00:03:02those who study there, those who work there, those
00:03:05who are there with their families. Let me remind you, in
00:03:09152 countries of the world, at Russian embassies and consulates general,
00:03:13326 polling stations were established,
00:03:16plus seven more polling stations were formed at
00:03:19Baikonur, which is located directly in
00:03:22Venice. So, as of 7:00 PM
00:03:25Moscow time, today,
00:03:28September 20.
00:04:00the global election relay at foreign polling stations
00:04:04on September 20 is almost a thirty-hour
00:04:07range from the opening of the first foreign polling station in New
00:04:11Zealand, which took place at
00:04:1311:00 PM Moscow time on September 19, and
00:04:17until 5 AM on September
00:04:2021 Moscow time, when the last
00:04:23foreign polling stations will close in Guatemala, Nicaragua
00:04:27and Costa Rica. I want to.
00:04:39Yemen, Niger, Sierra Leone, Equatorial Guinea, South Sudan
00:04:43and the Republic of Maldives, that is, the geography has expanded. Maria Vladimirovna,
00:04:47what is the latest information on voter turnout that you have? Can we make any
00:04:50conclusions now? Well,
00:04:53first of all, I can say that among the most active
00:04:57polling stations, we have Yerevan, Belgrade, Cyprus,
00:05:00Chisinau, Pyongyang, Phuket and Kazakhstan as leaders.
00:05:04and the turnout is extremely
00:05:07high, and it, of course, exceeds
00:05:11the dynamics of previous elections, which we talked about and prepared for, that is,
00:05:15there was no such thing that there were not enough ballots, the count
00:05:18was not done correctly, everything was done correctly, all
00:05:22citizens who wanted and want, because the elections are still
00:05:25ongoing abroad, will have such an opportunity.
00:05:28Tell me, did the closing of Russian consulates in a number of
00:05:32Western states affect the turnout, according to your feelings, or is this not
00:05:36an obstacle for our citizens? This affected it from the point
00:05:39of view of.
00:06:12it was clearly stated that the consulate would close just
00:06:15before the start
00:06:18of voting, so the work was immediately
00:06:21redirected to Berlin, where the voting
00:06:24took place. So it was indeed
00:06:28more difficult, but all our foreign offices,
00:06:31despite any machinations, with this work, I cannot now say
00:06:35in the past tense that the work is still going on, but you see
00:06:39they are coping online. Maria Vladimirovna, what is known about the provocation?
00:07:12polling stations remained one, but the number of people who want
00:07:16to vote has not decreased, indeed,
00:07:19voting is very active, and
00:07:22I cannot say anything about the turnout in these countries with statistics
00:07:26in hand, for only one reason, voting is either
00:07:29still ongoing in Germany, it is
00:07:327:00 PM now, or it has just finished,
00:07:35so all the data will be
00:07:38available a little later. As for
00:07:40other forms, I would say
00:07:42in person abroad, because it was initially clear
00:08:00that websites would be blocked
00:08:03by Westerners, even information is sometimes difficult
00:08:06to obtain, so in-person voting
00:08:10is taking place, well, and of course, a monster.
00:09:12for her to be able to vote, and she was born, by the way, in
00:09:151923, she is now 102 years old,
00:09:19in Zagreb, Croatia,
00:09:22resident of besieged Leningrad Luiza Mikhailovna
00:09:25Rachar, came to the polling station herself, it
00:09:29was more convenient for her, she wanted to, and
00:09:32so they are voting very actively, everyone is
00:09:35voting, you probably see our
00:09:38broadcasts on social networks, those who are
00:09:42there are also voting, in Yerevan, for example, the singer
00:09:45Zara, who is there with concerts, voted. Here in
00:09:49Bulgaria, in Sofia, our boxing team voted,
00:09:53because the athletes are participating in the European Championship, which is taking place in
00:09:56Sofia from September 17 to 25,
00:09:59and I will quote the head coach of the Russian men's boxing team,
00:10:03Fruchudinov: "We came," he said, "to vote
00:10:07with the entire team in full force and are very glad that we have such
00:10:11an opportunity to fulfill our duty to."
00:10:20Thank you very much, thank you very much for these truly very
00:10:24indicative examples. Let us remind you that Maria Zakharova, the official
00:10:27representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was on a direct line with us, well,
00:10:31and it can even be extrapolated to our country, because we are all one big team
00:10:35that is participating today in a big, important political
00:10:38event in our country. Well, now we will interrupt for a short while, all
00:10:41relevant information about the course of voting from
00:10:44the Central Election Commission. Immediately after a short break, we are waiting for a live
00:10:48broadcast from our colleague Daria Kozlova. This is a special broadcast on
00:10:51Russia 24 channel. Stay. Stay with us.
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