Election day

In the Kamchatka Territory and the Chukchi Autonomous Okrug, elections to the State Duma and local authorities began. Polling stations opened at 8 a.m. local time (23.00 Saturdays in Moscow).

In total, up to 108 million Russians who have the right to vote can take part in the elections. For them, about 96 thousand polling stations will work in Russia, RIA Novosti reports.

About 37 thousand people are included on the Chukotka lists of voters. In many reindeer herding farms of Chukotka, as well as remote villages, on border outposts and fishing vessels located at sea, elections to the State Duma were ahead of schedule.

In the Kamchatka Territory on Sunday, at the same time as the elections of State Duma deputies, elections will be held at the Legislative Assembly of the Kamchatka Territory of the first convocation, the Gordum of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, as well as the elections of a number of heads of municipal regions.

In total, 267 thousand voters in the Kamchatka Territory, including 250 thousand and 17 thousand in the Kamchatka region in the Kamchatka District.

Immediately after the closure of the plots in Kaliningrad (21.00 Moscow time), the data of Exit Polls, as well as the results of early voting and voting of the residents of the eastern regions of the country, will be made public.

In Moscow, all 3278 polling stations have already been taken under enhanced protection. They are checked for anti -terrorist security, said the head of the Department of Information and Public Relations, police colonel Viktor Biryukov. He noted the Central Internal Affairs Directorate that the police outfit are on duty in the premises of each election point, there are employees of the Ministry of Emergencies with primary fire extinguishing means and medical workers. The Moscow police operate in an intensified mode. Capital airports, stations, metro, ground transport and especially important objects of life support of the city are taken under special control.

On Sunday, more than 20 thousand police officers and military personnel of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are monitored in the capital in the capital. The routes of all police patrols are as close as possible to the elected areas. To coordinate the actions of law enforcement in Moscow, a single headquarters is working, which includes the leaders of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, the Moscow Ministry of Emergencies and the city health department. In each administrative district of the capital, mobile reserves from riot police fighters were created, Biryukov concluded.

Kommersant wrote the day before that the responsibility for ensuring the safety of elections was entrusted to the FSB.