At polling station no. 1810 on the morning of September 18, a voting member of the PEC Yevgeniy Krashennikov complained of a sharp discomfort after a cup of coffee offered by his colleagues.
“Some strong substance immediately hit the eyes,” he told a Novaya Gazeta journalist. Krashennikov's wife Tatyana (also a PEC member) stated that PEC members offered him a cup of coffee after the polling station opened.
“He immediately began to feel sick, vomiting began, his face was swollen. We called an ambulance and the police. The cup from which Zhenya was drinking was not found — it was immediately washed by someone. It was decided to collect the vomit for research, ”she says. As a result, Krashennikov was hospitalized in the emergency hospital No. 2, in the toxicology department.
Photo courtesy of Tatiana Krashennikova
On the eve of Krashennikov, due to the lack of online video broadcasting at the site No. 1810, he demanded to install a video recorder to control the safes. The polling station is located on the territory of the hostel of the Rostov Construction College in the center of Rostov, access to the hostel is open around the clock.
According to Tatyana Krashennikova, the decision to install a video recorder caused outrage among other members of the PEC.
“One of them, pointing to the registrar, said something like 'we don't know at all what this object is, maybe it's a bomb.' The police officer on duty reacted to this statement. A special group was called, the site was evacuated, all of us, and later — the residents of the hostel, were taken out into the street. For some time, the ballot box, safes, voter registration books were unattended, ”Tatyana Krashennikova told Novaya Gazeta.
Information about the evacuation of site 1810 is confirmed by the Electoral Commission of the Rostov Region. «A message was received about a suspicious object, law enforcement officers checked, the fears were not confirmed,» the commission said.
Videoregistrstor eventually managed to establish, but Krashennikova is convinced that they tried to poison her husband at the site. “I am writing a statement about the commission of a crime against my husband. Today we will try to carry out all possible examinations, ”she said.
Precinct No. 1810 is located in the Lower Don constituency, where in a single-mandate constituency the candidate from United Russia, State Duma deputy and ONF member Anton Getta is opposed by a member of Fair Russia, State Duma deputy of five convocations Mikhail Yemelyanov.