TIRASPOL, 17 sep. Four polling stations opened on Friday in the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic for voting in the elections of deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, the RIA Novosti correspondent reports. Voting in the Duma and other elections on a single voting day takes place in Russia and abroad from 17 to 19 September. The State Duma is elected for a five-year term under a mixed electoral system: 225 deputies are elected from party lists, another 225 — from single-mandate constituencies in one round. 14 parties have registered federal lists of candidates for the State Duma.
The first buses with people willing to vote left the LPR Two polling stations opened in Tiraspol: in the Palace of the Republic and in the House of Officers of the Russian Army Two more polling stations began work on the territory of military units of the operational group of Russian troops. The servicemen and their families will vote there. The work of election commissions is carried out in compliance with all quarantine measures. Residents of the PMR in the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation will vote at 27 polling stations. Including 12 in Tiraspol, six in Bender, two each in Slobodzeya, Dubossary and Rybnitsa districts, one each in Grigoriopol and Kamensky districts, as well as in Dnestrovsk. Transnistria, 60% of whose inhabitants are Russians and Ukrainians, sought to secede from Moldova even before the collapse of the USSR, fearing that on the wave of nationalism, Moldova will join Romania. In 1992, after a failed attempt by the Moldovan authorities to solve the problem by force, Transnistria became a territory that was actually not controlled by Chisinau.
In Russia began a three-day voting in the elections to the State Duma
