After almost three weeks, Churov asked to investigate events in Balashikha

The head of the Central Election Commission of Russia Vladimir Churov addressed the heads of the Investigative Committee, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor General’s Office with a request to check for possible violations in the elections in Balashikha, who passed on April 26. Letters are published on the CIK website.

In a letter addressed to the head of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of Alexander Bastrykin, Churov notes that the Mosoblizbirkom on April 28 had already applied to the prosecutor's office and the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Moscow Region with a request for "taking appropriate response measures."

"During the voting at polling stations, 588 and 576, situations related to possible unlawful actions were recorded, including beating observers and media observers, and having wide lighting on the Internet," the Churov’s letter says. “I ask you to conduct signs of the compositions of the crimes provided for the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation to achieve an early result.”

Generosuror Yuri Chaika and the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev Churov asks to take control of "conducting the audit and achieving speedy result."

On April 26, in the 8th constituency of Balashikha, observers from Solidarity Stanislav Pozdnyakov and from the Party of Progress Dmitry Nesterov prevented the stuffing of the ballots , recorded an attempt to throw in the photo and video and called the police. However, before the arrival of law enforcement officers, bandits came to the site, who brutally beat both observers. A few days later, due to the beating, Pozdnyakov had a gap of the spleen , and it had to be removed.

On April 27, the head of the Moscow Region Irek Vildanov said that "well -prepared Nazi forces well prepared in Balashikha acted in Balashikha." According to him, observers were prepared "in Polish camps."

The next day, Russian human rights activists turned to Churov demanding the resignation of Wildanov .

On May 7, Churov said that the scandal surrounding the tugs in Balashikha elections was a rehearsal of the 2016 parliamentary elections for the opposition. The 8th district of Balashikha became the only one in the suburbs where the scandal arose during the elections on April 26, the official noted, although about 100 observers arrived at the sections. “All this suggests that they (opposition. - Ed.) Wanted to practice a little, learn how to organize ... I am refraining from definitions until they say their word law enforcement agencies,” Churov noted. “Perhaps this (action. - Ed.), Prepared in advance, outlined to break the elections in 2016.”

On Wednesday, Russian human rights activists called for the immediate resignation of Churov . The signatures were put by Lyudmila Alekseev, Valery Borschev, Yuri Vdovin, Svetlana Gannushkina, Sergey Kovalev, Grigory Melkonets, Oleg Orlov, Lev Ponomarev, Alexander Cherkasov, Lilia Shibanova.

Churov was supposed to intervene in events during the recent municipal elections in Balashikha and "give an assessment of the political banditry and cynical abuse of voting law," human rights activists believe. However, the head of the CEC actually approved actions aimed at falsifying the results of the vote. Events in Balashikha once again discredited the electoral process in Russia, human rights activists emphasized. This increases the number of those who ignore the elections.

"It is quite obvious that the disappointment in the elections in the future provokes society to other, non -emergency methods of political struggle. If nothing leads our country to revolutionary crises and the threat of bloody internodists, then these are just such" bloody "elections!" - It was noted in the statement.