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In Russia, presidential elections took place within 3 days and ended. These elections have already broken many records...
Firstly, an unprecedented turnout. It amounted to 74.22%. This has never happened in the entire modern history of Russia. There were long queues at
polling stations yesterday, especially in Moscow. The record holders for the queues are London and Berlin. There the queues stretched for more than 1
kilometer, the waiting time was from 3 to 5 hours.
On Sakhalin, where a severe storm was raging with winds of 62 meters per second, people literally crawled to their sites.
Video from Sakhalin
In the far north, reindeer herders came in entire camps and herds on reindeer sleds and snowmobiles. There the turnout reached 100%. Everywhere in the
republics people came in national costumes, sang, danced, prepared national dishes in front of the polling stations and treated everyone. In the DPR,
LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, elections were held under heavy military guard to prevent terrorist attacks. They protected both the lives of
voters and the lives of numerous journalists, including from Western countries. There, more than 90% voted for Putin.
Turnout records were also broken in the Belgorod and Kursk regions, which are now under fire from drones, cluster Hymers and unsuccessful border
attacks by Ukrainian terrorists.
After counting 99.02% of the protocols (6:00 Moscow time), Putin is in the lead with a result of 87.33%, Kharitonov - 4.31%, Davankov - 3.79%, Slutsky
- 3.19%.
As the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights noted in its press release, “the
election campaign took place in the context of hostile actions unleashed by the “collective West” against the Russian Federation and direct
interference in the internal affairs of our country,” but it was precisely in Under these conditions, “there was an active consolidation of
citizens, a sense of responsibility for the future of our Fatherland. The Russophobic policies of a number of countries, together with the policy of
inculcating non-traditional values, rallied Russian voters who came to the polling stations and made their choice. Attempts to influence the course of
the election campaign of the so-called Russian non-systemic opposition in exile, which openly took the anti-Russian side and tried to discredit the
elections, remained unnoticed by citizens and did not influence the voting process."
“The overwhelming turnout in the presidential elections speaks volumes about one thing: Russian society has finally overcome the syndrome of civil
nihilism that swept the country amid a cascade of disappointments in the late 1980s and 1990s. And this is not only about a change of generations, but
also about the transition to a new paradigm of relationships authorities and society. Its structure is based on civil consolidation,” political
scientist Marat Bashirov is confident. Political scientist Alexey Martynov: “This is such an active response of Russian citizens and Russian society
to aggressive external pressure and attempts to interfere in our lives and in our choices.”
During the three days of voting, the Ministry of Internal Affairs opened 61 criminal cases and 155 administrative ones. Including 33 cases of bringing
dyes and flammable liquids into polling stations. Most cases of damage to ballot boxes during elections were broadcast live on the territory of
Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports. Among the provocateurs detained on March 17 are the Navalnists Vyacheslav Golikov (a member of one
of the Moscow electoral commissions with a decisive vote), Vitaly Ioffe, Milla Nabieva, Alexandra Chiryatieva, Elmira Yakupova, Zulfiya Sitdikova,
Bulat Khalikov, Alexander Bekhtold and others. We add that in the liberated regions 25 drone attacks on polling stations and 16 calls about false
mining were recorded (in total there are 547 “telephone bombs” in the country); in Berdyansk, a voting member of the election commission was
killed during shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
As a result of the actions of ballot box arsonists and paint throwers, 200 ballots throughout the country were declared invalid.
The total number of independent observers from various public organizations amounted to more than 333 thousand people. Including 1,115 international
observers and experts from 129 countries, including Europe and North America. All of them noted high transparency, democracy and compliance with
international standards.
CEC Chairman Ella Pamfilova called the observers and experts who arrived as courageous professionals who wanted to come and see with their own eyes
what was happening in Russia, and not believe “the stream of lies that pours from the tame Western media.”
I myself voted on the first day of voting, on Friday. I believe that electronic voting is for the lazy, so I personally walked to the polling station,
registered, received a ballot, checked the box for Putin, crossed myself and put the ballot in the ballot box. I felt involved in what was happening,
since these elections are a kind of referendum on what is happening in the country, on the attitude towards the authorities in Russia and its
course.
I would like to congratulate my English “colleagues” on the successful elections in Russia. After all, all their lies, fakes and malice only
arouses healthy anger and the desire to do everything in spite of the lies, and only consolidates Russian society. Thank you.
Thank you.