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December 4: in the country and abroad
Dozens of people were detained in Moscow on the evening of December 4. By chance, even the champion of the Olympics-88 in Seoul, football player Igor Sklyarov got into the autozak. “This is a public moral defeat of the party in power” 30 million or so, 27.5% of those who have the right to vote - so many people, according to preliminary data from the CEC, gave their ballots for United Russia and Tandem. For 4 years, the party in power has lost almost 15 million of its voters. If you believe in official data.
“Reality is even worse,” says Grigory Grigory Golosov, director of the interregional electoral support network, professor at the European University in St. Petersburg. “This result was obtained due to the maximum squeezing of the votes in the odious regions (Chukotka, Tuva, Chechnya).” “The result of 50% is already with stuffing,” says Dmitry Oreshkin, a political scientist, an employee of the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences. -Where to our activists from the Association "Citizen-Consious"
* * Voluntary association of citizens to control elections, created specifically for the 2011 campaign. It was possible to control the counting of votes, and this is Chita, Blagoveshchensk and a number of other Siberian cities, the "EP" received no more than 40%. " Alexander Kynev from the Fund for the Development of Information Policy is even more skeptical and evaluates the scale of manipulations at about 15%. “In fact, United Russia scored about 30 with a small percent,” he said. “The power of the admin resource fell by almost a third, the reason is that people actively resisted the imposition of imperious will,” summarizes the voices.
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Throwing and emissions 4 years ago, in 2007, the “squeezing of the votes” took place primarily in the national republics: they gave “United Russia” about 12.5% of the vote. This year, 94% voted for the party in the Party of power in Mordovia (report from the Atyashevsky district of the republic - on page 13)
* Hereinafter, the numbers are given at 6.30 in the morning on December 05, 2011, when the number was signed in print. (2007-94%), jewelry fell into its last result and Chechnya-99.48% (2007-99.45%), Dagestan-91.07% (2007-89.5%) and Tatarstan (80% versus 81.7%-in 2007) slightly exceeded). Obviously, here they were not so much voted as the numbers in ballots painted. Dmitry Oreshkin recalls that in 2003, even Vladimir Putin deceived the stuffing of votes in Tatarstan: he congratulated the Yabloko party on the State Duma, and after 2 hours it turned out that unexpectedly, having lost 2% in Tatarstan, the party Grigory Yavlinsky remained overboard.
However, the problems of the vertical power made themselves felt even in the loyal regions: United Russia sagged significantly in Kabardino-Balkaria (loss-18%), in Bashkortostan (minus 13%), and in the Sverdlovsk region the party of power gained in comparison with 2007 twice as much as votes, 32% instead of 63% (a report on resistance in Yekaterinburg-on 3). The protest wave, raised on the Internet, made itself felt: even the pro -Kremlin analysts live the state channel “Russia 1” recognized: for “EP” those for whom the meager increase in salaries and pensions are voted - the opportunity to survive, youth, who in the past did not go to the elections, made up the main wave of resistance. This was especially evident in large cities: in St. Petersburg, EP lost over 25%. In Moscow-12%, despite mass stuffing: according to Exit Polelov, the party of power gained no more than 25%in the capital. Now it is already obvious: the strategy of Navalny - to vote for any Party, except Pzhiv, who overcoming 7%, worked. Her beneficiary became primarily the Communist Party (they improved their result of 2007 by almost 8%) and “Fair Russia”, whose chances were almost zero 2 months ago-most likely, it will become the third fraction of the fraction on Okhotny Ryad (in 2007-the fourth), bypassing the LDPR of Zhirinovsky. Finally, the Yabloko party, although it did not go to the federal parliament, gained unexpected 10.5% to the legislative assembly of the northern capital.
But the boycott of the elections did not give a completely predictable result: the percentage of spoiled ballots (1.5%) remained the way it was 4 years ago.
3 thousand “ours” activists provided the correct percentage of “United Russia” on December 4. So, as it was: all day of voting in different regions of the country, The New Times correspondents monitored what was happening at polling stations.
“They drove some kind of cattle,” an elderly woman in pink glasses and a ridiculous gun beret, located on a bench in the middle of the Porovo metro station in the middle of the Moscow metro station, was quietly indignant at her ear.
“At least they walked at the scoop, and then pulled out,” the second responded, in a short black fur coat. - And why it was impossible at least at least? I can get here for a long time. ” - “Well, how! They need to raise a turnout! "
"So, all, go!" - loudly ordered a low woman under 60, in a karakulev coat and a mink cap.
“This is our director, Claudia Nikolaevna,” the dyed blonde of obscure age in a red arc of a coat told The New Times. All three, as they said, were employees of the social security department located in the south-west of Moscow. Here, in the working area of Perovo, there are several other women of similar age (however, in this group of 25 people there were several young women, one of them even took with her a daughter of about seven) or they sent either to raise the turnout, or add the voices of the party in power.
They rose from the metro with the inconsistent column and went to the green avenue, then turned to the 1st Vladimir Street: there were polling stations No. 1123, 1124, 1125. Part of the group immediately darted to the tray with pies. Another in a discipline stood in line. No absenteeks were presented, no one asked them - they approached, called themselves, received ballots, lowered them into the urn. The woman in a blue jacket, who was standing behind the New Times correspondent, spoke on the phone: “Come up, mothers, I was already asked if I was not from the interview, but some woman, when I lowered the leaf into the urn, shouted to me:“ Anya, do not forget to call back! ” And at this time, a new organized group of women gathered at the same metro station of the Perovo metro.
Such “carousels”, in which either wordless state employees or hired students (price from 500 to 4000 rubles per vote) participated in the country. Only in Moscow and only on the phones of the Antikiurusel volunteer organization (50 mobile brigades were organized here, which tracked the “carousel”) calls with messages rushing in the capital, there were several hundred.
“800 people in the area of pure ponds in the same white wraps stood near the monument to Griboedov, waiting for instructions. They said that they were brought from the eagle and that each of them had already managed to vote for United Russia 2 times, ”said one of The New Times. The same people in white capes appeared on the agricultural street in Moscow, at polling stations No. 686, 687, 688. The observer from the Communist Party told the magazine that “these were nurses”, there were 90 people, and to keep track of how they voted, there was no way.
Astrakhan, Volgograd, Yekaterinburg, Kalinigrad, Perm, St. Petersburg-everywhere “carousels” were recorded by a number of 15 to several hundred. City of Kasimov, Ryazan region. “On the site No. 15 there is a crowd behind the ballots about 100 people, they were brought by buses. And here only 2 observers - and both of the EP: they refuse to fix violations, ”the reader of the magazine wrote.
In addition to the “carousels” there were direct stuffing of the ballots: in Vladimir, in the cities of Kumertau and Belebey (Bashkortostan), in Chistopol (Tatarstan) - this is only according to the messages of observers and authors of The New Times. In Moscow, journalists prevented 3,000 bulletins for United Russia in 10 polling stations in the north-west of the capital in the Khoroshevo-Mnevniki area.
In Vladikavkaz (North Ossetia), in section No. 336, the observer from Fair Russia, “The Chairman of the PEC offered a bargain: for 1 vote for the Socialist Revolutionaries - a stuffing 50 per EP”.
There were direct bribery. In Kovrov (Vladimir Region), at the Degtyarev plant, workers were offered 500 rubles each. For the voice in favor of United Russia, and at the Perm machine -building they acted even easier: “Either vote for the EP, or we will dismiss,” the correspondent of Voice said. “The percentage of falsifications in these elections is 7-10%, while in 2007 it was 15–20%,” says Dmitry Oreshkin. “The thing is that citizens began to more actively record violations, while no one protested for 4 years.”
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Distant approaches ”to the Kremlin very high -quality blocked by the police" infantry "
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Judging by what was happening in the center of Moscow, the authorities were really afraid of mass performances. The leader of the Left Front Sergei Udaltsov, who was going to go to Red Square with supporters, was abducted from his own apartment, and only by night it became known that he was again arrested - for 5 days.
Here is a report by the New Times, a former employee of the Special Forces “Vympel” of the KGB of the USSR, Lieutenant Colonel in the reserve of Anatoly Ermolin.
The “distant approaches” to the Kremlin are very qualitatively blocked by the police “infantry”: near the metro at the underground crossings there is a cordon, along the Manezhnaya Square from that side of the roadway with an interval of 8-10 steps, fighters in gray cloaks lined up. On the square between the hotels "Moscow" and "Metropol" in even rows are the "Kamazi" of the division of the internal affairs from Balashikha
* Omsdon is a separate special-rifle division of special purpose, which was once part of the NKVD troops. . In the bodies - personnel. Charming. We multiply 40 “Kamazov” by 30 - already 1,200 young qualitatively prepared meleearies trained to prevent mass riots. Those same "sliced berets." Behind the monument to Karl Marx, army camp kitchens were spread out, immediately - the even system of mobile dry closets.
On the approaches to the monument to Zhukov, that is, very close to Red Square-a dense system of young police officers for some reason Asian appearance. Most likely the Buryats. An elderly woman of about 70 is approaching one of them: “What, son, drove? At first, I suppose they were forced to vote for the Putyak, but now they put it in a cordon? Wait, dear, wait - I suppose you are not here. ” The fighters are silent. All passages to Red Square are blocked. At the entrance to the rink in the doorway there is a private guard who reports: "The rink is closed for technical reasons." - “And who is skating there? - Ask the continuing passers -by to approach. “And these ... for whom we will vote today,” the guard is no longer a kind of blessing at all.
And at this time, another correspondent of the magazine Yegor Mostovikhov “mowed” under “ours” - 3 thousand commissars from Uglich, Yaroslavl, Murom, Makhachkala and Grozny were brought to the capital to participate in the “carousels”. On December 5, another 4 thousand commissars are waiting, on December 6 - another 8 thousand things are asked, why? “We came to support Medvedev, to support him,” said the girl Marina, with whom the New Times correspondent was held in a column from the Bolshoi Theater to the headquarters of “ours” in the empty pavilion No. 57 at VDNH. Activists betrayed sleeping bags and multi -colored waterproof jackets. Obviously, the continuation follows. But on this - already in the next issue of The New Times.
The report was prepared
Evgenia Albats, Ilya Barabanov,
Olga Beshley, Dmitry Dokuchaev,
Anatoly Ermolin, Yegor Mostovshchikov, Zoya Svetova
On December 4, 1 million 816 thousand voters were outside the country. For them in 55 countries, 369 voting plots in Germany, Poland and Latvia worked for the first time with the help of an electronic system: the voter was given a card with a barcode, which had to be attached to the machine, which allowed the necessary party. Many were not able to immediately figure out which button to press, and long queues grew in the sites. In addition, according to the testimony of Sergei Medvedev, the observer from Yabloko, who was on duty in the site in Berlin, was often violated by the principle of anonymity: people forcedly resorted to the help of the embassy employees. There were more serious claims: “They allow everyone to vote, simply rewriting the passport data. Nobody checks names later, so you can potentially vote several times each and the same passport or according to different documents. ”
In general, the activity of voters abroad was much higher than 4 years ago, for which in our embassies and consulates were clearly not ready. In the UK, 2208 people voted. Results: 41% - “Yabloko”, 19.7% - Communist Party, “Fair Russia” - 15.8%, “EDRO” from 10.6% - to 4th place. The beginning of the vote was nervous: the Russian embassy lined up a line of 200 people. The registration of each voter took 4-6 minutes. At first, only 2 registration tables worked, then they guessed to add another 8. According to the head of the international movement “Speak louder” Andrei Sidelnikov, only 70 people voted by the middle of the day.
But the evidence of the Russian scientist Igor Sutyagin, who is now living in the UK: “The feeling is that the embassy workers specially slow down the process. They miss people very slowly. Then it suddenly turned out that you can vote only according to foreign passports. Earlier on the embassy’s website it was reported that people can vote by presenting both types of passports. ”
In New York, according to the observer from Yabloko, Natalia Pelevina, 39 thousand ballots were sent from Russia by the number of registered voters. The number of the Pelevina, which voted behind the EP, according to its estimates, is about 40%. There were no visible violations, but by midnight (in Moscow) there were more than 30 thousand empty forms, that is, only every nine voted. When asked by the observer, what will happen to these ballots, the employees of the election commission (Consulate General) replied that they would “extinguish” them, “somewhere at one in the morning, not earlier”.
Natalya Pelevina, together with the correspondent of The New Times, spent Exit Poll, talking with those who left the polling station. Of the 24 people, 12 voted for the “Yabloko”, 6 - for EP, 2 - for the LDPR, 2 - for the Communist Party and 1 - for “Fair Russia”. One woman admitted that she voted against all, that is, she ruined the ballot. Lyudmila, 73 years old, a teacher, lowering her voice into the urn, wished the “apples” in English: “Good Luck, Yavlinskii”. And she added: "I was in Russia a month ago, they don’t think about people there, it’s a pity to the country.”
In Berlin, by midnight Moscow time, they announced that “Yabloko” had defeated here from 30%. 24%was given behind the EP, LDPR - 7%, “fair Russia” - 15%, the Communist Party - 14%, “patriots” and “right -handed” received less than 1%. “I voted against the“ Party of Crooks and Thieves ”, for the“ Apple, ”says Anya Kushmiy, a Russian student living in Berlin. But pensioners Svetlana and Alfred are convinced supporters of United Russia. “One horse is lucky, albeit lucky, and everyone will always have shortcomings,” says Svetlana's wife. “We have a daughter in Sydney voted for United Russia and my mother in St. Petersburg.”
In Israel, where 157 thousand Russian citizens were registered, according to preliminary results, “United Russia” and “Yabloko” were the leader. The third - “Fair Russia” is the only party that sent its observers to the elections in Israel. Observer Yuri Bocharov believes that in Moscow they do not take into account the specifics of the country in which elections are held: “Many in Israel do not live in large cities, but on the periphery, where there are no consular missions.
The material was prepared
Olga Golovanova, Sergey Khazov,
Elena Shafran, Boris Yunanov