At the polling station in St. Petersburg Elections in St. Petersburg showed a record low turnout - for 18 hours it was only about 25 percent. According to Radio Liberty correspondent Tatyana Voltskaya, the elections were accompanied by numerous statements by observers and candidates from different parties about violations - carousels, duplicated voter lists, ballots, organized voting of paid voters.

Jacques Shirak Former French President Jacques Shirak in Vokrozhnia was hospitalized in Paris, France Press reports with reference to the relatives of the politician. The 84-year-old Shirak was taken to Paris on a private plane from Morocco, where he was on vacation with his family. According to the agency, doctors diagnosed him with a pulmonary infection. Shirak was the 22nd President of France, with him the term of presidential powers was reduced from 7 to 5 years.

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Maria Baronova said on the air of Radio Liberty that these elections are affordable for 2011 elections

Voting at the polling station in Tyumen The Council for Human Rights under the President of Russia (HRC) reported that complaints about violations during the elections were received from different regions of Russia, including the Moscow and Leningrad regions, Krasnodar Territory and Astrakhan.

Line before entering the polling station in Moscow In Moscow, a man was detained in Moscow at the polling station number 10 in Armenian Lane. The Moscow Agency reports that this happened after the message about the threat of the explosion. According to TASS, a dummy of an explosive device was seized from the detainee. On Sunday, RIA Novosti reported that an unknown man who threatens the explosion entered the polling station in Armenian Lane in the center of Moscow.

Tamara Lyalenkova : Today we will talk about startups that, being implemented, can make Russian education more modern. All projects that the authors brought to the “Innovation in Education” contest, organized by the highest school of the economy, one way or another, make up for the shortcomings of the existing system. I asked some participants to talk about the problems that they tried to solve Alexander Pronin : I had a student who was preparing to pass the international exam.

Samantha Power The United States accused Russia of using an incident in Syria in order to propagate On Saturday evening, an extraordinary meeting of the UN Security Council was held at the initiative of Russia. The reason for him was the raid of American aviation on the concentration of troops near the village of Deir-Ez-Zor in Syria, during which 62 military servicemen of the government army were killed.

There are fewer observers in the current elections than in past years. The bulk of the messages about violations in Moscow concerned an organized transportation of voters with absenteeism.

During the vote on September 18, almost 1,500 people turned to the State Duma violations in the elections to the State Duma. Most of the messages are associated with the stuffing of the ballots, violations of the rights of observers and members of the precinct election commissions. In addition, citizens complain about the supply of voters and violations when voting on absenteeism.

Special issue of the program "Face to the event", dedicated to the results of the elections in Russia.

Police Cordon on the 23rd Street Manhattan In the center of Manhattan on Saturday evening, an explosion thundered On Saturday, at half past eight in the evening in the New York district of Chelsea, an explosive device worked in Manhattan. According to preliminary data, 29 people were injured. Their life is out of danger.

A bus specially equipped for voting in Crimea The authorities of the annexed Crimea on Sunday placed buses with urns and cabins for voting near the election commissions. This was reported by the site "Crimea. Reals". The administration of Simferopol controlled by Russia said that it would be possible to vote in the buses in the case of "unforeseen situations." In total, more than a thousand polling stations have been opened on the territory of the peninsula.

Elections are held in Russia. In the plots - voters, violations and pastries.

Boris Paramonov with the program "Dreams of Russia" dedicated to the "Diary" of Lyubov Shaporina.