Elections of deputies to the state duma. According to the central election commission, about 607 million voters will be able to take part in voting. Voters opened yesterday polling stations in 54 constituent entities of the Russian Federation today, they were already joined at 8 00 am by another eleven of our regions, which provide for twoday voting in some regions, we are seeing very high activity with a whole line at the polling stations. Well, in general, the picture is varied, but, naturally, it is what it is. We will reflect it adequately. In the omsk region, governors and deputies of the Legislative Assembly are elected by the residents of kolyma, the head of the region will have to be sorted out, but our direct connection comes from there correspondents anastasia panko and Lyudmila Shcherbakova greetings, colleagues. Eh, first of all , do residents of the omsk region actively vote for anastasia . Hello yuri, half of the first day of voting is already behind us; at the moment in
Of the smolensk region from smolensk for what you have already done in various matters our region. This is really great support and we will always be glad to see you here on the historical and heroic land of smolensk. Thank you. Big. Thank you. E. I think that together we must do much more than has been done so far. Uh, moreover, smolensk is our western outpost historically and uh, it is necessary uh, so that uh these gates in russia so that this uh, transferring the western side of the territory. On was due condition. E so that there is a good attractive outpost of russia e. For i repeat once again, a lot needs to be done. There are a lot of problems there. Eh, i said in my opening remarks that, of course, a lot has been done and done, but there was definitely much more that needed to be done. Eh, and these are the questions that vasily nikolaevich raised, which we discussed, they are simply top priority. Well, just first of all, i ask my colleagues to prepare these draft instructions
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