MOSCOW, Sep 28 Members of territorial commissions in Donbass, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions received numerous threats , but no one refused to come to the polling stations for referendums, said the first deputy head of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation, chairman of the supervisory board of the Rosatom state corporation Sergei Kiriyenko. «I can honestly tell you that I have incredible respect, admiration for people who have these five days of the referendums, they worked in the election commissions,» Kiriyenko said on Wednesday in Moscow at a gala evening on the occasion of the Day of the nuclear industry worker of the Russian Federation. According to him, only 16 thousand people worked in the election commissions, and «almost all, 99% are women». Almost everyone received threats of reprisals against them and their children if they did not refuse to participate in the referenda, Kiriyenko noted. «These were not empty threats,» he added. the task of ensuring the free expression of the will of people,» Kiriyenko emphasized. «This is the courage, the will of people who for eight years have been going to determine their own destiny. They could not be broken, they could not be frightened, they could not be subdued. to do, they have made their decision,» Kiriyenko emphasized.
