MOSCOW, December 17 A monitoring group on tracking attempts to interfere in the presidential elections of the Russian Federation, said the head of the Federation Council Commission for the Protection of State Sovereignty, Andrei Klimov.
“On the 8th, that is, we decided to announce the date of the elections — from that moment on, according to the Constitution, the election campaign began. And immediately the next day, our specialized group began its work — we call it the monitoring group — which will continuously conduct monitoring within the framework of our competencies, the competencies of our commission, until the election results are summed up,» he said in a conversation with a correspondent on the sidelines of the United Nations congress. Russia.»
The format for documenting the results of the monitoring group's work remains an open question for now; there are different formats, the senator added.
«Once upon a time, we made special additional reports — this was done in the eighteenth year, there was a special report. That is, there are different forms. It happens that we give large press conferences in order to draw the attention of society, individual government agencies and our foreign partners to certain challenges that we have to face. Sometimes we use methods of party parliamentary diplomacy — through our partners we try to influence those who flagrantly violate both the UN Charter and the Russian Constitution,” Klimov concluded.
The Federation Council has scheduled Russian presidential elections for March 17, 2024. The country's Central Election Commission adopted a resolution according to which voting will last three days — from March 15 to 17.