it is now three thirty pm here in moscow you want to see your headlines now there's a moratorium on canvassing and debate in russia's presidential election interest a day now before voters decide on whose to leave the country it follows weeks of campaigning by a vibrant rallies on some protests as well. the syrian army reportedly captures of dozens of foreign mercenaries some of them from france all of history fighting in the city of homs meanwhile the rebels are accused by an eyewitness of killing

people committing atrocities alongside regime forces. and a powerful israeli lobby seeks president obama's blunt on whether the u.s. would support a military strike on iran and washington is indecisive amid warnings that the move could be a disaster. well ahead of sunday's presidential vote we speak russian communications minister. all about the most high tech election in this country's history our interview show spotlight he's next. well for the. science technology innovation all these developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

hello yellow welcome to spotlight the interview shelf party when aren't they my guest on the show is. only a few hours left until the start of the most presidential election in russia the polling stations are already by now and so two hundred thousand well that will go on 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 he puts in his idea grateful the election process more transparent than ever before so it was a difficult to build such a network in such a shirt on and are there first already faced technical to improve the state issues

we've discussed it with one of the project's master my deputy communications minister in the are. we just around the parliamentary election russia caused huge public outrage made allegations of ballot rigging 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 polling stations across russia so anyone can watch the ballot casting online it was a huge job to set up a system that works with bill. existing related and the price was huge to half a billion dollars. hello mr myself 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 because the the in bush is gone was to cover the entire

country with web camera equipped polling station two hundred thousand we have cameras around the country so is it done here. it's always done it's about ninety five percent already. boughten by the start of the election it will be a hundred it will get here and it will be very important if we we we connected that it was a network and we each. camera we see in law school because it just occurred to me you had to do it in the winter because the prime minister came up with this idea in the winter in december i think fifteenth of december until december it's russia it's siberia it's cables and you had to dig it it's christmas and you literally had to did exactly yes yes incredible and what we found you for me as well so. the temperature on the minus fifteen years.

for kill people is broke and usually and i've seen by myself so sometimes people were heating people before putting putting it in the ground ok here you brought it with you and they dissolved a lot of what they will have on the problem stations and says says so here we have here we are hungry so so so this is your camera can you show yourself. or i can i can see myself in the camera like this or or a photographer so. as we can see as we can see on this on this monitor the picture is pretty good so what so is this picture i will get on my monitor you will get a little bit bigger picture in terms of quality some of this quality and so clear what will i be able to marja the pictures on my home computer what it says is you it's. the quality of the picture allowed me to see what to see the names on the

papers the protocols what can i see read can see just like in a supermarket my odds of shadows. will be too cumbersome on camera with shows the entire place where the election is go so that you can everybody can count for example number of people coming to the to get the vault. another another camera will show the place where the ballots. in english and. they put. their books. and after the end of the election process and the police we have a box with staying. there will be the police who are. members of the christian community. will start counting the votes and

then so they will put it out put your table algebra can get it out to the camera sort of like this and yet the people will be counting and what will be on here can be physically you know think there will be under your eyes of the flag and everybody can see it and very important and very well we are proud that we are so far in democracy by the way. the after finishing the counting the chief executive for this committee or what is shown to the camera enlarged courtly of the protocol and why did you have. change the law do you have to change the instruction for the fall for the election commission so they have to do this they have to go and tell them under a camera and not elsewhere they have to show the product how the camera like this so we did not use the loo again they had to do it right know that there is a clear instruction from the central election commission. and they have to do

so so this whole procedure has been written yes and if somebody breaks the procedure will you be punished penalize the what. he's saying forgot everything. of all the. controlling members people people who control the people there will remind him year 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 where there's one literally hours before before the upcoming elections there was lots of criticism in the world in the russia itself about the the manner in which the previous election was conducted and in the parliamentary election even disappear desegregation so it isn't true that in three months time now russia will

run the most transparent election there ever took place in the world. in my opinion yes it is certainly looks this way. yes it was intentional the prime minister to shoulder walder we can do more work and clearly action so we. will 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 question just your opinion why do you think mr putin's. 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 life like clear like a saint or is it because he was worried that there might be fraud against him. i see the current political situation is all true that some small fractures can can

be brought in the big picture like we've seen some arrive there are bored and we know that much tension. is. described by the media and the same. well the same. opportunity but saying it could be kept and we watch and have clear they won't question so i think the prime minister decided to have to show that. there is no question about democracy in russia. knowledgeable thing was a smart move ok listen human history here you talked about well these two hundred thousand cameras digging digging in siberia in the cold temperatures and so when you spend a great deal of money will you have to count to somebody to the parliament to the

prime minister to some other body to need to fill a great amount of money which is of course well there is a start from the beginning of the project we asked accounting chamber to join our team and to control all those paintings. and we of course will report to the government and to the problem and. i think hearings. on where we have spent. almost leads not so much money. we spent and still less than five five hundred million dollars. if you take into account the. size of russia and that is the level of communication we have unfortunately in some places and we do know we didn't have electricity where we put a camera so basically. the energy that we had to build a house with this project there will be quite good internet connection

by the way to requests about one meter be it for sick perspire second to be kind of paper and in there is regions where they will be no such connection in forthcoming five for ten years. and there was this project be. and fashion would pay back somehow will you will you will you be able to sell since technology i mean maybe so so i want to grow all of the interest is just. i think you know i think it's called itself built very simple but very fresh so the. old all sort through is written in russia and. has no help and we seize. control for this project. but for russia as well we see a lot of opportunity where we can use this similar to the elections

a piece of example between the elections though in our society for example there is a big questions about. exams. you know unified exams. the way it was done in some of the secondary schools in secondary school the reason i'm asking about this being efficient and bringing back is that you may know that the person who actually did this congestion charge system like never can get me jobs in your own private here how do you i mean he doesn't have to think about about money here he's probably ever since your travels around the world and you know busy he made enormous about these very very rich now because he came up with the system so you don't something similar with the system belongs to the telecom which is. owned by a government gets will our government will gain technology and then can be more reached in the way i'm not asking who will give the money i'm just saying that the system like this may be efficient it may sell it may have been

a bit because this guy this is this i don't know i forgot his name he's just traveling around the world telling others how to do this and that's not a major no no not living as the living thing to reside. but the guy lived here. he was there he was the culprit all right now just a reminder that we're talking. indeed i was so deputy communications minister of russia will be back shortly after ben so stay with us though. we all make choices sometimes it's tough. but it can be an easy. choice be left to fate. or it can be. limited. the charm the combe.

shows and. it's always personal. except one day when choice matters to everyone. for. as votes for president r.t. looks at the five running for the kremlin top job. liberal democrat. by far was just those boisterous bully politician. a sixty five

juvenile skeet is on his fifth presidential campaign coming one ten percent of the votes in two thousand and eight his campaign slogan is little escape or it'll be worse. for presidency a to hear dr against corruption and drug smuggling in russia farah food and housing prices controversy cost campaign promises included free vodka and free underwear. is infamous for racist remarks and fighting with opponents. for securing parliamentary immunity for the man britain says poisoned alexander litvinenko. presidential election two thousand and twelve on party. welcome back to spotlight just a reminder my guest on the show today is ileana deputy communications minister of

russia we're talking about the new. new system new 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 yet it's absolutely legal because we. it's done by the government and it. will be a big sign for all. participants in citizens that there is filming. filming instanter but still can a person and train station to vote. and cuddly to her i mean if he doesn't

want to be filmed is it possible seems sam sam out not to get on screen ok will i think. first of all we've fought all the cameras. a little bit quiet in the room so that it's. filming from the bottom to the from the. bottom. as a person. who keeps a little bit. in the queue will be not not is very important that there is online consolation consolation transmission and. he's not will be not very public let's say so by saying not very probably i mean that every word everything that was transmitted and then will be filmed taped and kids kept inside the ministries and it will become in the last two local mornings i

mean it's not. going to be so those who have been especially. response ability for this earth we will allow to some citizen to. be fully responsible and guess who will be all the person who will the minister 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 but. there will be to our quest for peace one is in each notebook really and another in the detail is a really easy will be some criticize someone so sometimes. it's very t.v. man so you know you're it's very difficult to compromise. well online online in a film you know to facilitate with it and i will not always know cattle will never

get. it so i don't think that anybody will be able to quality will we see the quality now we see it here on this laptop but when we start working with paper or for example our this piece of paper to a camera and i try to i try to see can we read what's written on this paper and on your particular paper and not know but on the protocol there will be large courtly of the throttle and currently we have only five hundred parts and you can see where that crosses yes. so there's a so if i hold the protocol right. then there will be five people and very importantly there is a sound recording as well and. chief. election committee will release their town land and show you no reason to proclaim. you know the question least central electoral committee was quoted as saying that there were claims 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 in the transmission so if someone does the fraud but we poll seems based so. much correct but it's not such a system will not show. more than more than a half of the. screen so those it will show faces but not then watched. and. fraud in the election is one of the world's legally prosecute. they persecuted both saying. if you see the police can find a criminal using the web cameras installed somewhere in the streets. you can see anything like this much better ok. two hundred were

working simultaneously many many hours in a row those that mean there is a possibility of internet collapsing on russian yonder beginning 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 so wife and. this two thousand cameras of course there is a technical fault that could be called to one of two percent of the normal. we actually ninety five percent of the people what are taught here minister here in this studio he said. that. many people know millions of people may like to watch that sound so that's 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 don't subscribe this 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. we. will go through. it's quite easy you can use any of social networks i.d.'s any of. agent and use like google mail young. face was a little bit like first person scripts lawyers because they're all sort of sort of my family we step into sort of much of just to be prepared to the force and get through we'll see the system can survive with. described. we were going ok now is it would be possible for a person that subscribed to get this picture would be possible for him to record. on his computer it's computer it's personal equipment so you can it's easier to

recall you can use print screen or something like this stuff. on. a paper or windows p.c. so it's very easy knowing something thousand police stations around the country does your system allow me to switch between the polling stations and choose what i want you know you can go and you can go to using using map or using search engines . any polling stations in the country. and pictures if you sees a map of russia was number of polling stations so you. suppress the brakes in transmission of commercial breaks or something or it will be from the beginning to the end until until the final protocols are signed like nonstop. the translation will go to washington speech and the will go in between nine o'clock in the

morning and nine o'clock till nine pm local time zone local times and then the jews due to the fact that. russia has nine planes on its. once the elections process stopped on the for example far east and the transmission rules. will be played only on nine pm by moscow time so so so so it's well it won't contradict the law because you're not allowed to show the results of the last polling station. well if somebody wants to wants to. disrupt the work of those webcams here if i enter the polling stations and somehow tackle the webcam or try to stick chairing the i want it or whatever is it a criminal offense but of course it's hooligans. because in the so you

use local brewery think this system is already part of the election process and it's protected by a long. haul the poll it's political and so instructed to too long. to control there's another question maybe it's a political questions but still how 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 the two will for example currently ju ju ju can. any. video material the materials court has a complaint it may take this material officially or even. and if 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. that there is no. no possibility to not accept that will there be a procedure to make these recordings later. for journalists for media. i think well we will think about it but look at the archives there is a. personal data already so. you can do election process with your wife or. your friend a lot of stuff for. personal life for the people so ok ok thank you thank you very much for being with us and just a reminder that my guest today was. deputy communications minister of russia and that's it for now from all of us here struck by it will be back with more first i'll comment from what's going on. outside russia until then stay on r.t.

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