The CEC advised to ask questions about the Ministry of Communications CCTV elections – RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, February 24 – RIA Novosti. Questions about conducting surveillance in the elections should be addressed to the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media in Russia, said a member of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation Valery Kryukov.

In the autumn of 2015 the media reported that the State Duma, the Central Election Commission and the administration of the President to discuss the issue of resumption of surveillance in the elections to the State Duma in 2016. Then the Russian Central Election Commission Chairman Vladimir Churov said that the CEC did not discuss the question of the use of video surveillance in the elections to the State Duma in 2016.

At a meeting of the State Duma on Wednesday, where considered candidates of the State Duma of the new composition of the CEC, the deputy head of the Communist Party faction Nikolai Kryukov Kolomeytsev asked a question on carrying out surveillance in the elections. According to the communist “state spent 25 billion rubles on it to make a universal video surveillance.” Kolomeytsev asked, What are the prospects of this system, and who bear responsibility for the money spent.

“I want to say that the Central Election Commission no money, no equipment is not received. This control over us. We did not control, but for us watching public, the people’s all made Ministry of Communications All questions can be found in the Ministry of Communications with Rostelecom… “, – said at a meeting of the State Duma of the hook that put forward in the new CEC” United Russia “

he He said he first heard about the amount of funding for election surveillance, which he called Kolomeytsev. “I never before it had heard I think it is profoundly exaggerated.” – Hooks said

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