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The voting station installed at the Russian Embassy in Vilnius is guarded by the police and security, passing those who pass through a metal detector.
According to BNS, the press secretary of the Russian embassy Alexander Kudriavtsev in Lithuania is about 14 thousand. Russians with the right to vote. They can cast their vote on Sunday until 8 pm polling stations and in Klaipeda and Visaginas.
2.30 p. M. According to the data, about 500 voters turned out to the Vilnius electoral college. Many of them are retirees, Soviet soldiers living in Lithuania since the end of World War II, to whom Russia pays pensions, and their families. The older people went to the polls until noon and there were few young people.
Voters in some cities where there are no polling stations are taken by bus at the request of the embassy.
Lithuanian Russians interviewed by BNS said they voted for both the ruler and the opposition. Many, among other things, refused to share what they thought about the election and the candidates.
“I am satisfied with Putin. And will others come? Scratch everything. As in Lithuania, a new government, a new order. And things change every year. My age is that there is no need for a new order, and neither do my children they need, they even said they wouldn’t vote. So why change the broom, if it still sweeps well? “said Dmitry, who was born in 1935.
Svetlana BNS, 53, said she had voted against her friends being recognized as foreign agents: “I voted not to be afraid of us in the world, to separate good from evil in both political and social life.”
According to her, she voted for the same thing in the last elections, and I already feel the changes.
“I have reason to believe that more and more people understand power as reliability, certainty, not shooting. More and more people do not want their children to die in senseless wars, who understand that freedom is good, “said the woman.
According to A. Kudriavcev, the vote in Lithuania should have been monitored by public observers, but no one had arrived at the embassy by noon.
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