The voting process is being monitored by more than a thousand International Observers and experts from 129 countries. My colleague roman plyusov works at the Electoral Commission center, where all voting data is received, and he joins the broadcast. Roman, what news do you have by this hour . Daria, good afternoon. Well, the polling stations are actually working, voting continues. Today is the main final day of voting in the president ial election. Here on the online scoreboard of the Electoral Commission center the numbers show the turnout. Almost 63 , this is the latest fresh data, 62. 97 . Ella pomfilova, head of the Central Economic commission, explained why today is important. Today is a very important, final voting day. I would like to wish all our colleagues who are now, all commissions are open, yes, that everything goes at the highest level. Everything we taught, everything we talked about, the elections must be held as cleanly, honestly, correctly as possible, so that no one had the slightest doubt about the correctness of the way these elections are going, you know, there are two very important points here on the one hand, the elections must be held for voters, calmly, clearly understandable, the voter must come to the polling station or vote remotely and so that there are no. Glitches, on the other hand, these are malicious when they try to maliciously interfere with the elections, these are hacker attacks, these are not only hacker attacks, but also physical ones, now there are 100, 1. 15 International Observers from 120 countries work in russia, a very large delegation in moscow, in the moscow region, but a delegation of foreign observers in the Belgorod Region witnessed shelling from ukrainian militants. Our work. Observe at this time, we saw that elections at polling stations in the region are being conducted publicly and openly, and also that the rights of citizens are respected, and we can also say that we were in one polling station and a missile threat was declared there, and i am very glad that the commission responded quickly on time. Remote electronic Voting System and separately on the election monitoring portal and the Central Election Commission website literally reflects there every hour. Hundreds or more attacks, at first voting, about 280 thousand attacks on remote electronic voting resources were blocked, this is only on dec, on dec resources, of which 215 were directly on the voting portal. Lets take a few more interesting ones. Numbers, because now turnout is the most interesting thing, we have recordbreaking regions that have overcome the psychologically important threshold of 90 of voters, these are chechnya, tva, kemerovo region, kuzbass, there are more than 90 of voters there, there are outsider regions , but this is the european part of russia, so they still have time, so to speak, to gain votes, they do not reach 45 , for example, the republic of karelia, the altai territory does not reach fortyfive. Davia operates one site, turkey, japan, thats interesting, in south korea there are interesting observations, at first a small queue lined up in front of the site in siulli, and then about thirty people, and then people just started coming en masse, a line formed out of 250 people, this queue did not decrease. Well, we continue to monitor the progress of the voting, polling stations, let me remind you, have already closed in kamchatka, chukotka, and now polling stations in magadan and sakhalin have literally just closed, we will then see how. They come, what data comes from there, inform you immediately. Daria. Roman, thank you, my colleague roman plyusov works at the central Savings Committee throughout the day. More than half of the residents of the smolensk region have already voted in the president ial elections. Based on the results of the second day, turnout in the region exceeded 54 . We are still waiting for data for today in the near future, but also this morning a candidate for the post of head voted at one of the polling stations in smolensk. Let me remind you that for the legitimacy of not only the cameras that are installed on all voters, but also International Observers, so today for the second day experts from the republic of belarus have been working in the region, who arrived as part of an Observer Mission from the cis, they have already noted the high level of Organization President ial elections in russia in our country in the region as a whole, and the first the people of the region voted on friday and. Well, today one of the president ial candidates Vladislav Davankov from the party arrived at the polling station in smolensk, new people, and here we have the fact that he was born and studied in smolensk until he was 17 years old, here in including this educational institution, the lyceum named after academician petrov. Vladislav davankov has already voted, and lets hear what he has today. I vote in my hometown of smolensk, in my school and urge all those who have not yet had time to come and vote for the future of russia, today i will still meet with my friends and we will wait for the election results, it continues, well, now we are interrupted from the smolensk region, but. What, they are making a movie, no, cameras are needed for public control, how many cameras are there, here . So that voting can be observed, observers work at the polling station, and all important places are under constant surveillance. Video surveillance desks of members of the Election Commission, places of issuance, storage, movement of all ballots into redemption bags, boxes for voting and ballot counting places, and the completed ballots are all sealed in bags and stored in separate safes or metal cabinets. I wonder who watches these videos . The broadcast can be watched by candidates, parties, public observers, and if necessary, the recording can be rewinded and watched. 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The area of the facility is over 8 hectares; in total, more than twenty buildings and structures are being erected. This includes a diagnostic and treatment building and helipads. In crimea , over a million voters have already made their choice in the president ial elections, the turnout was more than 70 , this is data from the regional Election Commission. Olga kurlaeva is monitoring the voting process; she is on direct communication with the studio. Olga, greetings, how do crimeans vote . Yes, hello, today is the third final day of voting in the president ial election. And these are temporary polling stations that are located in hospitals in pretrial detention centers. And by their own will, who find themselves, so to speak, in a hospital bed, or maybe by choice, people say that this is very convenient, because our motherstobe vote, and mothers who have already given birth to their children also vote, they are very happy, they say that it is very convenient, everything is surrounded by care and attention, otherwise as for the turnout, it exceeded 70 . We have. Results as of 20 oclock yesterday, march 16, 2024, 1,85,128 voters took part in the voting, which is 72, 72. 07 . Well, here we also have december, this is the result as of yesterday and today the voting will continue, therefore we will observe how the picture will change. The voting process and the electoral process are being monitored by foreign observers from countries in africa, asia, friendly countries in europe, in addition to what they observe , various excursions are held for them, that is, when they come to the countryside, which are located in picturesque places of the republic of crimea, there is also an excursion for them, because on these days there is also an anniversary, the First Anniversary of the crimean spring. What the crimeans themselves say about this, whose president ial elections coincided with the anniversary of the crimean spring, we can now hear, this is a great holiday, this is a holiday of the heart, a holiday of the soul, a holiday of such a state that, here i am in my life i have taken part in elections many times , in various ones, but i have never had such an uplift, an upsurge of spirit, today , probably in my own way, just the day before, out of spite, let s say, an energy blockade, at night the highest tower in capital of the crimean republic in simferopol. On the day when crimeans unanimously made their choice to reunite with their historical homeland, the simferopol tv tower was painted in the colors of the russian flag. It was really very beautiful, it was very epic, it looked from. All the residents crimean capital, this is simferopol , they came out to see, in the evening it was burning brightly and beautifully, residents of the neighboring kherson region will also come to see this spectacle, it borders on crimea, and where the president ial elections of the Russian Federation are also now taking place and there is a real holiday for which, as we ourselves, as we understand, in general, people are bored , so they vote in large numbers, people walk with their feet, excuse the expression, vote with a tick. Already in the paper bulletin, and in addition to this, genches is preparing for the big maslenitsa, pancakes are baked there, pigs are fried on spit, well, in general, they celebrate in every possible way, i want it to be stable, for it to be good, for my grandchildren and children to feel good, for russia i think for the best that we will have, although there are already indicators, so to speak, what kind of emotion there can be , okay, everything will be good. Good luck, peace to all. Of course , the kiev regime is trying to interfere with the residents of neighboring, residents of new regions, they organize provocations, try to disrupt the elections, but this does not work. It must be said that security measures have been increased in the republic of crimea, because there was one precedent, the same as in fact, everywhere associated with greenery, but such cases did not happen again, we are taking measures. Security has been increased, bags are checked, things are checked, well, without this, crimeans are ready to vote, they understand what the terrorist regime of kiev is and they are now choosing their future. Dasha, yes, olga, thank you about how crimea and new regions of russia are voting these days, Olga Kurlaeva said. Well, now to belgorod, one person died there and another was injured as a result of morning shelling from the Ukrainian Armed forces. Reported this. With the voter, together with the Election Commission employees, took refuge in a bomb shelter, after this alarm was canceled, work resumed, there is no panic, all employees are working as usual and people continue to come. Today, ukrainian militants struck belgorod, and the residential sector of the regional center, using rocket fire systems, as a result of which a child, a sixteenyearold girl, died. Her father is hospitalized, now they are receiving all the necessary help, also during this the impact damaged residential buildings, social facilities, cars, and also the city of grayvoron, the village of topoli, the village of oktyabrsky, gorikovsky came under fire, uh, due to damage to the power line in ten settlements, now there is no light, emergency repairs are working services. To protect peaceful towns and villages there is a unit of the ministry of defense, also the Border Service of the fsb of russia, they shot down shells from a Rocket Launcher system flying towards belgorod, a vampire, as well as hurricane, lets give the floor to an eyewitness, at about 8 05, where it is 8 03, thats how you heard about it, but because everything was thundering here, and then we look, smoke is coming, we jumped out into the street, everything is instantly here it caught fire, they called the fire department. Naturally, it has already increased significantly. Lets listen to the opinions of local residents. I was a citizen of ukraine, im alive in kharkov, this is my first election with a new passport. Here. And how do you feel about voting in russia . Its easy, easy, simple. Everything is fine. Why do you think it is important to come, show, because to prove that we cannot be intimidated. I want to vote. Thats why i came. There are four forms of voting in total, this is early, also remote, you can also vote at stationary points, as well as at the house, members of territorial Election Commissions, upon preliminary application, come directly to peoples homes and they can exercise this right, this is most often they write such statements , elderly people, because many of them are now afraid to go out due to regular. The chairman of the regional Central Election Commission reported that that his colleagues work in difficult conditions, but thanks to their professionalism, the work of Election Commissions is carried out as usual. Lets listen to the commentary. Our precinct commissions are heroes, mostly women who selflessly work at the polling stations, selflessly make decisions when necessary, the precinct commission. Observers walk to a safe place, all voters who are at the polling station at that time, of course, our border, when there are a lot of people who applied today to vote at home, they go to every house, every apartment, no matter what, and as everyone says today, belgorod residents cannot be broken, this is exactly about our precinct Election Commissions, the words of a specialist are confirmed by 3,500 observers , including foreign ones, yes . Yes, igor, thank you , indeed, even despite such a difficult situation, very good turnout figures in belgrade, according to the latest data from the local Election Commission, 78. 62 now in the Belgorod Region. But our correspondent igor pikhanov was in direct contact with the region. Ukraines strategy of targeting the russian city of belgorod in an attempt to disrupt the vote and incite anger among local residents is backfiring. A Washington Post columnist comes to these conclusions. The article cites a survey that was conducted in the city, and people say that it was the ukrainian shelling that convinced them that they should definitely participate in the elections. Even those who previously called are going to go to the polling station. Themselves indifferent to politics. In addition, according to american journalists, due to attacks from the Ukrainian Armed forces, support for the actions of the russian army is growing among residents of the Belgorod Region. Well , now donetsk is actively voting in the Donetsk Republic these days. Since february 25 , an early procedure took place here, commissions went to Populated Areas near the contact line. And today polling stations will be open until 15 00. And now on. The United States of america, and france, spain, italy, chile, cameroon, the syrian arab republic, we are already hearing a statement from the Us State Department that some appropriate sanctions will be introduced against observing