Medvedev condemned "Hunger Games" in Astrakhan

President Dmitry Medvedev doubted the sincerity of the participants of the hunger strike in Astrakhan. “There is a sincere protest, and there is a well -calculated political position,” Medvedev said in the final interview, answering the question of the hunger strike of the candidate for mayors of Astrakhan Oleg Shein and his supporters. “Hunger games are a rather mediocre Hollywood blockbuster. And the one who does it is a very obvious political goal.” According to Medvedev, "now all goals have been achieved, everyone is eating with appetite and preparing to get the State Duma mandate."

Medvedev expressed confidence that "on a country's scale, no falsification is impossible" and the result of the federal elections "always reflects the will of the people." He considers protests against dishonest elections a sign of “general increase in the level of political culture” and the result of the development of “new information funds”. According to Medvedev, he regrets that at one time, in connection with the crisis, he allowed the Ministry of Finance to postpone the widespread introduction of the Koibs in polling stations until 2015. “Maybe if we did it, there would be fewer questions,” Medvedev said.

On Tuesday, Shein stopped a hunger strike, which he held 40 days. On Thursday, the court began consideration of his lawsuit to cancel the results of the mayor’s elections. Shein said that the main goal of the hunger strike was achieved - "to overturn the false elections in Astrakhan." Shein was welcomed by the statement of the head of the Central Election Commission Vladimir Churov, who admitted that in Astrakhan the violations in the elections were in 128 plots out of 203. "In the dirty shameful puddle of the village of the local prosecutor’s office, which previously revealed that she had revealed violations in only 5 sites," Shein wrote on his blog. At the same time, Churov denies the presence of falsifications, he emphasizes that we are talking about procedural violations. “The word“ falsification ”means“ falsification ”. That is, it is a correspondence of protocols, when at first they honestly counted, and then converted to TIK (territorial election commission),” Shein explained. “In Astrakhan, they simply rewritten. We simply did not show marks in ballots. This made it possible to draw any results, and there were no protocols to sign it. need to".

At a press conference last Friday, Churov demonstrated numerous videos from the Astrakhan sites in which observers were driven away, not allowed to watch marks in ballots, removed members of the commissions with a decisive voice.

“Now I’m sure that the court will decide on the cancellation of the elections in Astrakhan,” Shein wrote on Friday. “Moreover, I am convinced that it will be a Russian court, and not the ECHR. Otherwise, we will look ridiculous as the country, and our justice is completely discredited - how to recognize the elections as legal if the calculation procedure has been violated, according to the CEC, in 70% of cases?” Videos from all polling stations of the city were attached to the lawsuit. Shein for more than a month has achieved from Rostelecom access to the notes of webcam.

"The crisis in Astrakhan will help hold the elections more honestly in the country," says Shein. He welcomed Churov’s statement that webcams showed their effectiveness in the elections, and the promise of the head of the CEC to expand the use of the Coobas. Shein thanked everyone who supports his struggle.