Official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, said that Russians who voted abroad did not succumb to provocations and made their choice. She wrote about this subject herself telegram channel.
“If the people lining up abroad to vote in the presidential elections in Russia had joined the ‘noon’ protest, they would all disperse in the afternoon. But no. They stood in line on Friday, Saturday and today,” Zakharova said.
According to him, Russian citizens were coming to elections abroad to exercise their rights and not to participate in actions or demonstrations that “hostile regimes were trying to demonstrate.”
Before reportedHe said that at the Russian Consulate General of Russia in Phuket, where the voting center for the Presidential election of the Russian Federation is located, there was a kilometer-long queue of Russians who wanted to vote.
Four candidates are running for the post of President of Russia: Vladislav Davankov (New People), Vladimir Putin (as a self-nominated candidate), Leonid Slutsky (LDPR) and Nikolai Kharitonov (Communist Party of the Russian Federation).
Previously reportedA schoolgirl set fire to a tablecloth at a polling station in Krasnodar.