Churov came up with how to stop being a "wizard"

On the last day of 2012, the CEC of Russia arranged in the format of the New Year's matinee the presentation of his new information center, which was about 100 million rubles.

On this occasion, a Christmas tree was dressed in a building in Bolshoi Cherkasy Lane. However, the chairman of the CEC of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Churov told reporters that this time he "abandoned the costume of Santa Claus, because I need to get rid of the image of the wizard," ITAR-TASS reports.

Such an epithet firmly entrenched in Churov in Runet thanks to the phrase of Dmitry Medvedev, who called the head of the CEC “a wizard almost” following the election of State Duma deputies in 2011, which became record -free in the number of scandals and accusations of falsifications.

The presentation of the new center was prepared hastily and literally in three months the CEC meeting room was “stuffed” with ultra -modern information technique. In particular, a huge screen is installed here, consisting of 21 video panels, and five screens of a smaller format that allow you to monitor the voting progress and summarizing the results of the elections of any level.

The price of the project amounted to about 100 million rubles, the head of the Federal Information Center under the CEC of the Russian Federation Mikhail Popov informed. The first exam for the new information center will be a single voting day on September 8, 2013.

Nowhere in Europe such a system exists today, assures the CEC member Valery Kryukov. Churov, for his part, dropped the phrase that showed somewhat ambiguous to some observers: "The project is important in that we first carried out all the work openly and publicly , starting from the concept up to the details of the technical specifications."

The presentation was not too crowded: representatives of political parties and media leaders, who were sent numerous invitations, ignored this event.