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hello yellow welcome to spotlight the interview shelf artsy lover and today my guest on the show. only a few hours that left until the start of the most sites that presidential election in russia's history the polling stations are already by law and so the two hundred thousand well that will draft as the ballot think why all the internet is being a very ambitious and costly project of the russian government but insists it will be worth the life e put inside their aim to make will be election process was transparent ever before so it was a difficult to build such as network in such a short time and all their fish were ready to face problems technical to improve the state machines will discuss it with one of the project's master my deputy communications minister in the. december parliamentary elections russia

caused huge public outrage amid allegations of drinking as a response to the protests the government decided to make the voting in the presidential poll transparent some two hundred thousand cameras have been stations across russia so anyone can watch the ballot casting online it was a huge job to set up a system that works well. build existing data and the price was huge to about half a billion dollars. hello mr smith welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us well first of all congratulations for as i understand you're you're you're you're nearly there you nearly did it because the vicious gong was to cover the entire country with web camera polling station two hundred thousand we have cameras around the country so

is it yeah. it's always done it's about ninety five percent already. gotten by the start of the election did move beyond it yeah yeah it was very important that we we we connected them to the network we. camera we see more school isn't just a kid to me you had to do it in the winter because the prime minister came up with this idea in the winter in december and fifteenth of december the ninth of december it's russia in siberia it's cable's you have to did it it's christmas and you literally have to dig and you exactly yeah yeah it's incredible and what we found it new for me as well so. in temperature minus fifteen sensors. for people is broking usually so. i've seen

by myself so it's and sometimes people will keating's a cable before putting putting it in the ground here you brought with you an example of what they will have on the polling station so says so so here we have here where we had our sound so so this is your camera can you show yourself a wire or i can i can see myself in the camera like this where or a photographer. as we can see as we can see on this on this monitor their pension is pretty good so what are so is this the picture i will get on my monitor you will get a little bit bigger picture in terms of quality so your quality of care what will i be able to manage the pictures on my home computer what else is used it is. the quality of the picture allow me to see what you see the names on the papers the protocols what can i see what i can see just like in

a supermarket like i'm some shadows. to kind of someone come in with show them into a place where the election is go so there you can everybody can count for example the number of people. to get the balls and another of another camera will show the place where the ballots. in english and. they put. their books belts and. the end of the election process and the police where books. there will be the police for the way. members. execution comments. will start counting the votes and so they will put it out put in a table and have a camera not that they can really sort of like this and yet the people who will be

counting and what will be going on here candy physically you know they didn't come through and out of the carrier and everybody can see and very important and very well we are proud that we are so far in democracy by the way. that after finishing the counting the chief executive of this committee or watson to be shown to the camera enlarged copy of the protocol and why did you. asked to change the law he had to change the instruction for the fourth of the election commission so they have to do this they have to go under a camera and not elsewhere they have to show the product how camera like this so we did not hear the lewis they have to do it right know that there is a clear instruction from the central election committee. is a have to do this whole procedure has been written yes and if somebody breaks the

procedure will he be punished or penalize the work. anything for love. of all the. controlling members of the people people who control the family the people that will remain in the air they will remind this people from different candidates and different parties so everybody. process of installing the cameras and is it was done in a very open way. a very interesting thing one where we're talking now or whether there's one literally hours before before the upcoming elections there was lots of criticism in the world in the russia itself about the balbi the the manner in which the previous election was conducted i mean the parliamentary election union said yeah you disagree so true that in three months time now russia will run the most transparent election there ever took place in the world will in my opinion yes. it is certainly looks this way. yes it was

intentional the prime minister to shoulder we can do most world war and clearly actions we are well transparent boxes with camera investors parent process i know you're a more technical person than a political person but still i want to ask you this just your opinion why do you think mr putin. we're so interested in having these transparent election why he's so interested there's no fraud in the upcoming presidential election is it because he wants to be a light like clear like a saint or is it because he was worried that there might be fraud against him. see the current political situation is or will show that some small fractures can can be brought in the big big picture like we've seen some around the border

where they know that much tension. is. described by examine. the same. well all the same. in that opportunity but same could be happening we in the march and have. these are all questions so i think the prime minister decided to have to show that. there is no question about democracy in russia. today knowledgeable thing was certainly the smart move ok listen you ministry here you talked about all these two hundred thousand cameras digging digging in siberia. temperatures and so when you spend a great deal of money will you have to come out to somebody to look parliament to the prime minister to some other body could lead to really great amounts of money. of course well there is

a start from the beginning of the project we asked accounting children to join our team and to control the spend so there we of course will report to the government and to the parliament. i think hearings. where we have spent. almost pleats not so much money that. we spent less than five five hundred million dollars and if you take into account the number well the size of russia and the level of communication we have unfortunately in some places and we do know of the we didn't have electricity where we put a camera so by the way. our solar energy that we had to build with this project there will be quite a good internet connection by the way through quite about one meter beat her sick

it's to be collected and in there is regions where they will be no such connection in forthcoming five for ten years. and there was this project be. fashion would pay back so now will you will you will you be able to sell things technology i mean well maybe so someone abroad who the interest is just in the world. i think you know i think it's called yourself built a very simple but very fishy so. all the. sort to is written in russia and it has no and we see the potential for this project. but for russia as well we see a lot of opportunity where we can use a similar actions and help between the elections go in our society for example there is a big questions about. exams. unified

exams. we it was done in some secondary schools in secondary school the reason i'm asking about about this being official and paying back is that you may know that the person who actually did this congestion charge system like the other congestion charge in your own private here i mean he doesn't have to think about about money he had his family ever said your travels around the world and you know he made enormous amounts and he's very very rich now because he came up with the system so you don't something similar with the system belongs to the com which is far surely owned by a government in place will our governments will gain such technology and then be more reached in the way i'm not asking about who will give the money i'm just saying that the system like this and maybe it should it may sell it may have become it because this guy this move this i had forgot his name he's just travelling around the world telling others how to do this and that's not the major me. not

living as the living is not residing right ok but i like here i. feel is the culprit all right now just a reminder that we're tracking. through the so deputy communications minister of russia scott life will be back shortly after brand self stay with us they're going to. we all make choices sometimes it's tough. but it can be an easy call. and choice left to fate. or is can be. minutes of. each on the comb. shows and. it's always personal. except one day when

choice matters to everyone. russia votes for president archie looks at the five running for the kremlin top job the candidate. of sixty seven chance to achieve most of communism from before his time the second in presidential elections since the end of the u.s.s.r. the two thousand and twelve votes for the his fourth. presidency free education is causing polish illegal immigration and introduce ethnicity stops in cost courts

controversy two colors communists usually vote with putin's party on the big issues known abroad for exploiting soviet nostalgia with pensioners and discontented industrial working class. presidential election two thousand and twelve on parties . welcome back to spotlight norman just a reminder a guest on the show today is deputy communications minister of russia are we talking about the new new system new electronic computerized system that will help . everybody around the world especially in russia you can see it right now here on a table see how the election process will be taking place in russia during the presidential election in your midst who is the man is the mastermind behind this

whole system we've talked about how it's working now a couple of short maybe yes or no specific questions first of all is filming inside the polling stations absolutely legal yes it's absolutely legal because we. it's done by government and it. will be a big sign for all the participants and citizens so there is filming. filming instanter but still a person entering a program station to vote. is encouraged me to her i mean if he doesn't want to be filmed is it possible to him sam sam well not to get on screen ok well i think. first of all we've put all the cameras. a little bit quiet in the room so that it's . filming from the bottom to the from the top to bottom.

as a person can please kill people. a little bit lower. it will be not noticed but very important that there is online translation consultation transmission and. he's nor will be in north a very public let's say so. very public i mean that every word everything that was transmitted and then will be filmed taped and kids kept inside the ministries and it will be kept in the. local morgue and they're going. to go to those who have been especially. responsibility for this or we will allow to some citizen to. be fully responsible who will be one of the person who will the minister who is a minister will be for the minister himself to be fully responsible because there are so is there a possibility that that. the archive can be tackled with you know that something

may be done with the archives. well so there will be two archive courtly one in each notebook and rendered as in the. z. will be some criticize somewhere. it's very t.v. man so you know year it's very difficult to compromise. on line. film you know to facilitate it with you know well not always no cattle no. i don't don't seem to anybody will the will the quality will we see the quality now we see it here on this laptop but when we start working with paper or for example how this piece of paper to a camera and i try to i tried to see can we read what's written under strain on your particular character and not know but on the protocol there will be enlarged

court to have the throttle and the. concrete we have only five hundred parts and you can see where that crosses yes not so subtle if i hold the protocol right this that there will be five right people and i'm very important there is a sound recording as well and. chief. election committee will release their town and show here is a broken now i am not a question the central electoral committee was quoted as saying that there were cameras will not show faces now then how will it be possible to identify a person that's responsible for a fraud because fraud is what we are looking for indian retransmission so if someone does the fraud but we can see his face so. he wouldn't do much correct but it's not such a system will not show. more than more than

a half of the screen so the it will show faces but not then latched let's say and. fraud in the election as one of the more the world legally prosecute. they persecuted both saying. country if you see the police can find a criminal using the web cameras installed somewhere in the streets. or you can see anything over there but there is this much better ok. two hundred work working simultaneously and many many hours in a row does that mean there is a possibility of internet collapsing i don't rush your understanding on the beginning of the project we really were afraid of the collapse of the internet or russia but right now we i am quite sure that the. internet will survive and.

this two thousand cameras of course there is a technical fault that could be called to one of two percent mormon. we question the ninety five percent of people would have thought your minister here in the studio he said. that. many people know millions of people may like to watch that so that maybe you will have to subscribe to a couple of days before the election actually to be able to watch that they do that and you are for example i didn't subscribe to this that means that on sunday morning i can switch on the internet and try to get this picture. to see on the force of march as a picture you have to subscribe. to well thought through and scrape it's quite easy you can use any of social networks ids of mail agent and east like google mail young.

face little deadline for subscription orders because of all sort of sort of my third that suddenly we step as a sort of margin just to be prepared to force kids who will see the system can so wife. described oh you know if we were going ok now is it would be possible for a person that subscribed and gives this breakthrough will be possible for him to record. on his computer it's computer equipment so you can record it's easier to record you can you can use green screen or something like this stuff like. used on a paper or windows p.c. so it's very easy knowing something thousand polling stations around the country does your system allow me to switch between the stations and choose going to war

with your i want your you can go and you can go to using using map or using your searches in. any police stations in the country. and the pictures if you see zoo map of russia with a number of alling stations so you. suppress will there be breaks in transmission a commercial breaks or something it will be from the beginning to the end until until the final protocols are signed well like nonstop. translation will go to production transmission will go in between nine o'clock in the morning and nine o'clock till nine pm local time zone local times and then. it is due to the fact that. russia has nine time zones. once the election process stopped for example in far east the transmission rules put on that

power little sound. will be played only on nine pm by most contract so so so so it's well it won't contradict the law because because you're not allowed to show the results of the last polling station. well if somebody wants to once to. disrupt the work of those webcams here if i enter the polling stations and somehow tackle the webcam and try to stick cheering i want or whatever is a criminal offense but of course it's hooligans. because in so few years local brewery seems very quickly this system is already part of the election process and it's protected by law and all the police the politicians are instructed to. have. to control. another question maybe instead censor political questions but still will these recordings later be

available to the media will they be available. to act as evidence in courts for example how well our opinions of it will for example currently jujutsu can. be any. video material and materials court has a good point he may take this material officially or even. we can they can they can use it as evidence and all the parties and candidates can use it. and will the courts accept it as legal evidence so. there is no. no possibility to not accept that will there be a procedure to to make these recordings later for us for journalists for media. i think well we will think about it but look the archives there is

a. personal data already so. you can do election process with your wife on busy. i say girlfriend well a lot of stuff is going in the personal life of the people so ok ok thank you thank you very much for being with us and just a reminder never yesterday was the silk deputy communications minister of russia and that's it for now for all of us tried light will be back with an offer from tom in front of what's going on. outside russia until then stay on r.t. and take your.

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