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Photo: RIA Novosti “The total number of reports of violations drops significantly by the end of the day, and is about 400 messages across the country”, — said on the online-marathon “election Night-2017”, the coordinator of the Association of observers, “national public monitoring” Roman Kolomoitsev. He noted that the majority of our observers are young people. “Let me remind you that our observers work for 20 thousand polling stations in 80 regions of the country,” — said the online broadcast of the marathon “election Night-2017”, the coordinator of the Association of observers, “national public monitoring” Roman Kolomoitsev. “The total number of reports of violations drops significantly by the end of the day. At the moment it is around 400 messages across the country”, — stated the expert. Electoral lawyer “National public monitoring” Vyacheslav Leontyev said that the experts will continue their work after a single day of voting. “We will

Photo: RIA Novosti The Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed his opinion about the situation with the arrest of Director Kirill Serebrennikov, reports RIA Novosti. “To me this subject is, strictly speaking, there is no need even to comment on this subject was expressed by the President just a couple of days ago. The fact that mister Serebrennikov has received government money in order to realize their creative ideas, already says that no no clip art here does not allow”, — he explained. Lavrov reminded that questions to Serebrennikov are in the plane of the flow received from the state funds. “And that’s not my competence, but competence of those who should follow in accordance with the laws of our country”, — concluded the Minister.

Ulyukayev commented on the words of Sechin on professional cretinism Former Minister of economic development Alexei Ulyukayev, who was accused of receiving a bribe of two million dollars, commented on the statement by the head of “Rosneft” Igor Sechin about what is happening in the process, reports the newspaper “Kommersant”. Before the next session of Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow on Monday, September 11, journalists asked the opinion of the defendant concerning the words of the businessman, called the “professional cretinism” publication of transcripts of their conversation. “The answer gave Gogol “auditor”. Necha blame the mirror, if face is crooked” — said Ulyukayev. Lawyers for the accused said that at the meeting on Monday is planned to interrogate three witnesses. September 8, Sechin called the professional cretinism reading the transcript of the recording of his conversation with Ulyukaev during the transfer of bribes to 14 November 2016. “There are things that

In the regions of Russia summarizing the results of the election In some regions of Russia after yesterday’s election has counted all votes. In particular, in the Novgorod region, where he was chosen Governor, after processing 100% of ballots most votes — 67,99% United Russia Andrei Nikitin, who was acting Governor. In second place — the candidate from the Communist party Olga Efimova from 16.17% in the third — the candidate from LDPR Anton Morozov from 7.51%. Processed all the ballots in Yakutsk — it was chosen mayor of the city. For the proposed “United Russia” aysena Nikolaev voted 68,41%. In second place — radium Vasiliev of the Communist party from 10.53% of the vote. Third — the representative “Fair Russia” Denis Vasiliev, from 4.8%. The fourth was the candidate of the liberal democratic party Gavril Parahin from 4.49% of the vote. On Sakhalin there were elections of the regional

© Dmitry Astakhov/TASS MOSCOW, September 10. /TASS/. The Prime Minister, the Chairman of “United Russia” Dmitry Medvedev is satisfied with how was a single day of voting. “We can testify that the elections – and there was much in this single day of voting in our country was held and were held at a high level,” he said on a conference call with electoral headquarters of regional offices of “United Russia”. According to Medvedev, the fact that the elections took place, “confirmed our supporters, and observers in total, who were at all polling stations”. Medvedev noted that “this time the elections were not combined with the Federal campaign, but overall it did not affect their quality, and in virtually every region of our voters showed respect to elections and high activity – somewhere more, somewhere less, but everywhere the elections were held at a good level”. Part Of The “United

© Sergei Savostyanov/TASS MOSCOW, September 11. /TASS/. The new parliamentary season opens on Monday. In the state Duma will start the autumn session, the first plenary meeting will be held on September 13. The draft budget for 2018 Traditionally, the consideration of the draft Federal budget is a major item on the autumn agenda. This year the adoption of the main financial law for 2018 and subsequent three-year planning period remains among the priorities of all Duma factions. The draft budget is developed by the government of the Russian Federation and must be submitted to the lower house of Parliament not later than 1 October. As stated in an interview with TASS first Deputy speaker of the state Duma Alexander Zhukov (United Russia), in Russia it is necessary to ensure the transition from stagnation to economic growth. Because of this, according to him, the draft budget of Russia “is based

Acting Governor of Sverdlovsk region Yevgeny Kuyvashev © Donat Sorokin/TASS YEKATERINBURG, September 11. /TASS/. Acting Governor Yevgeny Kuyvashev (United Russia) wins elections of the head of the Sverdlovsk region after processing almost 100% of protocols. This is stated in the message published on the website of the election Committee.

The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova © Yuri Smityuk/TASS MOSCOW, September 11. /TASS/. The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said that the German Chancellor Angela Merkel Parallels between the reunification of the Crimea with Russia and the history of the unification of Germany can give a reason the German media to report on hacking “Russian hackers” are not the server’s campaign staff and the candidate. The corresponding Zakharov message posted Monday on his page in Facebook.