Better not to chew and speak

The head of the CEC Vladimir Churov promised to declare a hunger strike in case of violations in the regional and municipal elections scheduled for a single voting day on September 14. According to RIA Novosti, the official made such a statement in Astrakhan at a meeting of the heads of the election commission of the South and North Caucasus Federal Districts, as well as the occupied Crimea, named in a message from the Agency of the Crimean Federal District.

“If something is wrong in Astrakhan, I’ll come to Astrakhan myself and will starve,” Churov assured. “I will attach myself to the Kremlin and starve myself.”

The official also threatened the chapters of the election commission responsibility for election violations. “Before arrival here in Astrakhan, you all watched the film named after Oleg Shein, which was created on the basis of entries from polling stations,” he reminded. “I would like to warn everyone: someone will have the same in the region - you will not survive to the front funeral. You will resign earlier.”

Churov emphasized that "the aggravation of the situation outside Russia, of course, will lead to an increase in attempts to discredit and delegitimization of elections, especially the regional level." “Let's show our foreign sworn friends a large and bold cake,” he called. “We won’t wait. We will hold the elections honestly and openly. Much better than they are held in Germany, France, the USA.”

In May 2007, the head of the CEC swung his beard in the honesty of the in the fall of the same year of the elections to the State Duma. Meanwhile, over 30 criminal cases were instituted in the fact of violations in this election.

In September 2011, on the eve of the next elections to the State Duma, opposition activists came to the Central Election Commission with razor supplies , saying that they intend to transfer them to Churov. “In 2007, before the elections, Churov promised to shave his beard if the elections in Russia are dishonest,” the Levny Front coordinator Sergei Udaltsov explained. “We believe that it is time for him to fully shave.”