So as not to jinx

European international organizations have not yet received official invitations from Russia to send their observers to the parliamentary elections on December 2. According to Kommersant on Tuesday, in Europe they are alarmed by the stubborn silence of Moscow.

Observers from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe are ready to leave for Russia since September. “There is a decision of the Assembly Bureau of September 13 on the direction of the pre -electrical mission of 10 people and the main mission in the amount of 60 people, but the problem is that no one received an invitation,” said Vladimir Dronov, chief adviser to the chairman of PACE, head of the Department of Inter -Parliamentary Cooperation and observation of the organization. The registration of candidates from all parties of the CEC.

The Bureau for Democratic Institutes and Human Rights of the OSCE newspaper confirmed that they also did not receive an invitation. “There is very little time left every day,” said the press secretary of the Bureau Urdur Gunnarsdottir. “If we compare the situation with 2003, the CEC lagged behind its own schedule for five weeks. Four years ago, at that time, our observers have been working in Russia for more than a month.” She added that she does not understand the reasons for the delay.

Andrei Davydov, the head of the external relations department of the Central Election Commission, confirmed that so far no invitations were sent to any of the observers. He noted that there are no restrictions on the deadlines in this matter. The CEC plans to send invitations to international observers after the completion of the procedure for registering elections participants (no later than October 27).

Commenting on the OSCE statement that the observers were invited to the previous elections 2.5 months before the vote, Davydov noted that "not in 2.5 months, but 1.5", and the period of 2.5 months is indicated in the "OSCE training manual, which is not a document." “These are the inventions of the BDIPCH (Bureau for Democratic Institutes and Human Rights OSCE. - Ed.), I can imagine such inventions as much as you like. So do not worry about the OSCE, worry about us,” the representative of the CEC asked.

Davydov suggested that several dozen observers will come from each organization to Russian elections, and not 400, as the OSCE believes.

According to the head of the International State Duma Committee Konstantin Kosachev, not 60 observers are going to call from PACE, but 30. And representatives of the European Parliament in Russia are not expected at all.

The head of the CEC Vladimir Churov last summer said that he considers the presence of independent observers in polling stations unnecessary.