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how again a welcome to spotlight. on today's. show . the upcoming presidential election in russia is going high tech in a bit to prevent vote from. two hundred thousand webcams. polling stations across the country video feed will be available. making of election more transparent the first effort will cost about half a billion dollars the price some critics say is too high so is it really worth. the possible to implement the project given it's a month before election day. russia's minister of communications.

half a year ago russia the european internet users raging becoming the market with the highest number of online users some seventy million people served on the internet regularly and most of them use social networks in december mass protests against alleges election fraud work coordinated by facebook expected in february and march and sunken studer the polling stations. in response to the anxious web users official say in order to provide uninterrupted access to all of the cameras the overall bandwidth of russian networks will be increased by fifty percent. along with the shovel and welcomes the show thank you very much for being with us well let's start with the webcams which is is it really a press unprecedented in world history to have webcams inside the polling stations

. perhaps not but big stance you know will be as you've said it two hundred thousands of webcams on stations all over the country in each and every polling station and to have a network with two thousand webcams transmitting single tenuously doing unlimited number of uses it is unprecedented and the world history of very high technology just how detailed will be i mean the picture what will be the quality of the cameras will be really allow the view to see some irregularities that may happen during the well there will be two cameras on the. station and their proximity speeds of transmission will be five hundred twelve the second it's pretty high quality and a lot of initial but you may see what it's not

a very high definition but it's enough to to see to see the details there will be two of them one will show the. station. with wide angle so we will see the whole the whole while the whole. second one will be directed to the boxes of the boat and boxes and then. after. the board will be finished the boxes will be removed and the table will be put in the same place where the commission will count the voices listen you are directing the cameras. at the polling boxes at the ballot box as they are called but when i go to. do that i have a literary but they were but we are not in the know so what member nobody will see you i mean the boxes where you grow where will your dog. not where you. put the

sign on the bottom so the place where you where you actually make your choice there will be no you will fill in the bottom of the no never ask your folder couldn't you just put it inside. the camera will be put to buff you know. the face not to see how they will not see they will not see my face so there is nothing anti constitutional and democratic and i think that people can can protest against as we see it it is not a decision that was taken just for the government there is an advisory council including members of the central voting commission. of political parties. from the next week on leaving from this week on there will be representatives of the headquarters of all the registers candidates so everybody will see. how the procedures are made what are the requirements and how it will go on during the

election well as as they say it doesn't matter. matters who's counting it that there's such a state and at the counting of the of the voices of the votes is is one of the most . contradictory well well at moments in the in the whole and the lection process so you say that those tables where the counting will take place will be under the cameras to here but will it be possible. i mean using these cameras to see whether this eager surely if but this is so as lattimer put it if i put it in here up there you just just give me this is probably not but you will see how many of the kind of this is going to that it was going to be explained or maybe explained by the commission members but it is

a suggestion of one of the political parties. the vote of counting. the president of the commission shows the result into the camera oh and so our home it will be you are just the sun and saved so this will be a special new procedure to salute during the counting of the vote to make it to make moment make it more transparent absolutely not visible will everybody well any use around internet get free access to those webcams where will it be sort of limited what you know would be some limitation is supposed to be accessible to every user so the theoretical theoretical rather silly move the theoretical the system is. well constructed to allow. to twenty five million. you know people. to see during the day one hundred million two hundred

people similar to honestly. sixty thousand viewers. camera at every given moment i do get a figure and i'm sorry like the the the traffic on the russian internet on the lection day may reach five point four petabyte here which five point four million terabytes which it's incredible. absolutely if you take you tube you know that every day the use of upload on the on this resource about four years of video every day what we will have with the system is going to be five hundred years with with an additional. after the election on the election morning russia will have the most advanced internet in the world absolutely absolutely as far as the video conferencing and distant probably indication that medicine and was facilities for

those matters are concerned here so it will be the case with a shot of well one thing is watching the election which is fun of course for years is for for for for for for crowds for for party may for politicians but another thing is having access to that arc i say after the election somebody says there was there were irregularities and one of the polling stations who will have the official access to the fs archive are very specific station recorded by the webcams this is more of us political question and it concerns directly the election legislation of russia so it tends to be decided upon it's within the political class the walls you know and with just latest as we see it but anyway there will be him. if the entire procedure within every.

voting. district will be. reduced to twice in a double way so one is going to be in everywhere cation on the computer that will serve the cameras and the second one is going to be in the data centers in the central data centers of the com so the respective glow chance that any air station is going to be lost and well know what interests me is look like a week two weeks after the election if there is information and then there has been for all that will the representatives of the civil society have the possibility through a court decision or otherwise to get official recordings take them to court and look at them and make a decision whether it was a fraud or not so there will be such a mechanism which absolutely absolutely absolutely does it's impossible to watch two hundred thousand cameras per day absolutely to watch you up with. the previous

question concerned the not the theoretical but the physical possibility of good to watch all of them. then that flicks network into the united states and its three hundred thousand view a simple tell us we try to work to watch some mission it takes almost a third of the entire capability of the unit you see internet so if it's going to be more the internet will collapse even in the states. by now we've got much weaker internet so we we are considering not a restriction about the. possibility of registration so everybody who's going to watch the vote on the fourth of march. is invited to to use his facebook of contacting us to cure cancer or whatever account also young

turks accounts to. register himself in the network and to have a private cabinet to show which you know what cultists he is going to visit will not show it on the fourth of march and this way the report on the site is going to go on the first of february so within the months we're going to calculate the capability of networks that is going to be needed for the most popular cations and probably increase so so you'll hear here to go to the demand. increases for those locations where the demand will be the most you know. popular says eager to shove their lives in russia's minister our communication spotlight will be back shortly after we take a break so don't go away stay we all will continue this interview in less than an.

sure is that so much as i can which of course he's right on it so here he was presidential campaign become a horse race pitting incoming rocket bomber against republican mitt romney if this is really the case.

welcome back to spotlight i'm algor norman just a reminder that my guest on the show today is shug minister of communications of the russian federation mr sheldon if we're talking about the high tech high tech collections the you webcams that are going to be installed as a matter of fact this was the initiative of prime is to putin and we always one of the candidates on the actually the main candidate for presidency on the upcoming election so but it wasn't his idea actually from the very beginning yes well what are the originally inside your ministry was it the internet community who came up with this idea first putting on cameras you know hey it was his own idea if you don't want to be absolutely because you know half ago when there were in the summer of two thousand and ten there were huge forest fires and you know to rebuilt the villages that oh i don't want to say yeah it was easier time so that the numbers on

the construction site i'm saying to control those circumstances absolutely and he was he was very pleased with you. when there was effecting or did you deal with that project absolutely i did work yeah yeah and the cameras are still there you remove them remove them after the construction work was done but they were there you had to think of a place where to put the cameras and you decided to put them in a post here. ross to look calm is the company behind this i mean the main provider of these cameras you know the whole system well the operation is worth like thirteen billion rubles what are they carrying tease of the transparency of the whole of the whole deal of the held up ration health project well. this summer consists of two parts one of them. the price of the equipment itself that would be installed in the. research but the other part is the cost of the

upgrade of the inter network so when the price of the equipment is two and a half. billion rubles and the rest as you want to stand is the nine and a half was going to go to the network but if you consider the comparable programs in other states some will not appear as huge as you but it's now a look in brazill. they're going to invest about six billion dollars in upgrading the internet. just to reach the miller supposed. to make electronic services possible its hundred and eighty billion groups we just thirteen billion and. telecom companies every year invest in the networks and comparable. solutions about three hundred

building rubles so with so it's just just slightly. under five percent your camera deal can be can be comparable variable with the so-called national projects i mean you have to act absolutely but if you take the scale of the project and in the time framework. it's going to be a record for sure that's a very you believe that one day the voting itself and i mean the election will maybe organize through the internet without any posting technically technically it is possible even now but there has to be. certain degree of the public trust and confidence in how those systems today any work if we look at the if i'm sorry if we look at the rallies that are going on in moscow yes today that the lead the public seem to have more trust in the voting in the internet than in

the voting and the probably station so what you say is that if you're the government which voting to the internet yes. there will be less trust in that. we have all we have to do to you know to have some results of social votes and polls to see which part of society and how this problem. here there were between twelve. thirty and fifty thousand people here we've got about one hundred million voters in russia so probably those are the people that were taking part and those. many of them went boat because the you know. political or creative class they've done often goes to the voting so yes yes well it just occurred to me that if we if we start thinking

big brother the meaning of all those so i think that like internet. gives the government even more possibilities to control the society that then this simple public station i thought was oh my david one of the considerations of those who are against the system so i believe it's not a psychological than thank technological question in two thousand and eleven the number of internet users in russia has reached seventy million is it continue to to grow and what's the rate because because because this is a lot this is a lot and we are the biggest market in europe and. bigger starting with two thousand and eleven is continuing to grow and. while we will leave the limit as the number of russian citizens that this number so we consider this is a very positive way but it puts enormous pressure on the government and our

minister because everybody is not such a spy it was just some and they were well seventy million is about a hundred it is about half and half of the population proper roughly well actually every every computer is usually used by a husband and wife a man and wife no no no this is not just just the computerless people of the people so me my wife and my son who used the same computer three years. so so so so in other you know the fifty percent increase we can have it all have ok now you mentioned the sopa and there are people there's another act in america that's being considered now your attitude your personal attitude to these acts towards go in the states the protest and did you hear any maybe talk within the russian government there about that what's the attitude of the kremlin towards similar acts having

similar acts in russia. or we're not considering to. take similar acts and. the problem with the sopa and the people is not just. a problem of the united states and their intellectual property. it's the way how we are going to resolve different problems concerning the internet on the world scale what russia proposed there will be an international mechanism allowing to attack those kind of problems any kind whether it be intellectual property online piracy cyber crime or children proper not graffiti so the the internet is something that is global that doesn't know any limits and any borders and if one state pretense to resolve all the problems. for his own good but

disregarding the problems of other states and not cooperating with other states that's not quite right that's why we suggest the first we. know this is american idea might not work well it might work but it will mean the collapse of the internet. as we know it today because it's international with the sopa. practically and in internet participants from service provider to those search engine to know that it will be required to cease providing services with any any internet agent accused of piracy and it doesn't matter was whether it is in the united states or outside it you mentioning the pirates the piracy and we know that there is like the pirates party

that has been organized in russia and they and they see seeking official registration and there their leader has been in the studio a couple of days ago and he said that you personally you visited one of their gatherings well and officially but you were present at one of their at one of their meetings well mr shulman he said the following the russian government is lacking ideas and is trying to find them from external sources like the pirate party so. your visit to the pirate party meeting is it because you really want new ideas is it because you consider them to be adequate people and do you want to cooperate with they were with the people like the pirate party. it was quite ridiculous just visited on the subject. of books to bookstore is working for some books. by the way it was go to adults. julie m it's

a very known novel of go to rebel but it was edited about ten years ago and it was the only stillwater to. get it out of the. well not not quite but this one a special novel. and there was a gathering of some young people and they recognized me and told me listen we're going to discuss the electronic democracy in russia we've got a working group you know we're going to workshop. could you well chat with us through half an hour while and turned out that there were not just people from the working group but there were represented of the product but so with was not with the buyers that they were in there with their photo book but i had those thirty minutes just stayed with them and discussed a couple of questions i wasn't prepared prepared to to the unsuspicious if it questions because i didn't see their papers in eight years it was just a general exchange of minds but. as far as the intellectual property within the us

. is concerned we do not like ideas we've got quite specific ideas that were presented by even by our president during the last g eight and g twenty summits. that were not accepted at the summit but i believe they're still being considered so we do have ideas but that we take into account the fact that all of the europe part is you know appear and even even if it consists by now i believe of some dozens of young people but there is a certain demands. certain to move toward a model that will be different of the model how the intellectual property was ruled in the nineteenth or the twentieth century because the people are not satisfied with the requirements of the intellectual property rights holders they want that their demands are considered as well so this shall be

a certain mixture. brit. golden solution that lies between between the rights holders and the pirates and so far their ideas might be of help as well thank you thank you thank you for just a reminder that minister of communications of russia was my guest on the show and that's it for now i'm hala. so then playing our team can take your. place.