Preliminary results of voting in the Duma elections, a low voter turnout, which showed federal television channels on election day.

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

Ilkka Kanerva The head of the OSCE mission observers of elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation Ilkka Kanerva said that the oppression of the Kremlin of civil society and strict monitoring of the state media negatively affected the elections and this was manifested in the fact that “various alternatives” were not provided to the Russian people.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky Mikhail Khodorkovsky called the results of the elections to the State Duma of the VII convocation predictable, emphasizing that voters have demonstrated their low appliance to them in recent years. He also noted that the party in power was not able to achieve legitimacy, as evidenced by violations during the election campaign and voting.

Mikhail Kasyanov The head of Parnas, Mikhail Kasyanov, will not take part in the presidential election in 2018, RIA Novosti reports . Kasyanov explained that after the State Duma elections, he does not see the point of fighting for the president’s post, as the country "has lost the constitutional opportunity to change the course." Kasyanov’s party on a single voting day received less than one percent of the vote; None of her candidates in single -mandate districts also went to the State Duma.

Co -chairman of the Voice Council Grigory Melkonets The movement in defense of voters' rights "Voice" recorded more than three thousand violations in the elections on a single voting day on September 18. The most common among them were procedural violations, infringement of the rights of observers and the media, as well as illegal agitation.

John Kirby The representative of the US State Department John Kirby welcomed the preliminary report of observers from the organization on security and cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the OSCE Democratic Institute and Human Rights Bureau and the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly on the Russian Duma elections. In the statement of the US State Department , it admits that the Central Election Commission of Russia led the conduct of elections, observing the principle of transparency.

Leaders Parnassus Mikhail Kasyanov and Andrey Zubov about the election results.

The election of deputies of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the VII convocation, held on September 18, 2016 on a single voting day, took place with an extremely low turnout in most regions , despite the fact that on January 1, 2016, more than 109 million 820 thousand voters were registered in Russia (including the territory of the annexed Crimea).

What to expect to citizens of the Russian Federation and the world community from new plans to reform Russian special services? - Discuss human rights activist Sergey Grigoryants, KGB General Oleg Kalugin, special services historian Yuri Felstinsky.

Roskomnadzor blocked the largest gay portal BlueSystem.ru. The decision to make a portal to the list of prohibited was made by the Parabel court in the Tomsk region. The Gay Sit administration reported its blocking. According to them, the BlueSystem.ru website did not receive any warnings from Roskomnadzor. This was reported by the Novosibirsk portal According to the Novosibirsk portal "Novosib-Rum.ru", more than 100 thousand people visit Bluesystem.ru.

In the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region, the police are looking for a criminal who killed a man in a restaurant of the elite village of Gorki-2. This was reported by RIA Novosti agency with reference to the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Life.ru reported that the victim of the attack in the Veterok restaurant in the village of Gorki-2 was Evgeny Zhilin, head of the Ukrainian public organization Oplot.

The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev, commander of the Russian Guard Viktor Zolotov and the head of the FSB of Russia Alexander Bortnikov The reform of law enforcement agencies is being prepared in Russia. Even before the 2018 presidential election, the Ministry of State Security (MGB) will be created.