now it's seven thirty pm here in moscow you're watching all the headlines now a day of silence campaigning and political ads are cleared from the russian airwaves shake off their political apathy and prepare for what's expected to be the highest presidential election. yet another suicide bombing strikes in syria the latest in a chain of attacks against government supporters as the syrian national council far from home in turkey baster fuel the fighting. plus u.s.

president barack obama is corporately in those for and against a military strike on iran's nuclear sites just as he prepares to face the mighty israeli army. by my colleague bill daughters here in half an hour's time but for now it's just a day now until the big presidential votes here in russia we have an election themed edition of spotlight. we'll have the. technology innovation all these developments from around russia we've got the future coverage. hello again

a lot of the spotlight play in sydney shall artsy. play my guest on the show is. only a few hours left until the start of the most presidential election in russia says the polling stations are already by now and so are the two hundred thousand well that will draft has the power to live on the internet it is me a very impatient and costly project how the russian government but insists it will be worth the life he considers idea of playful the election process more transparent than ever before so it was a difficult to build such a network in such a short time and are therefore ready to face probably several cold temperature of the state machines will discuss it with one of the project's master my deputy communications minister in the uk. the december parliamentary elections russia

caused huge public outrage and made 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 with delta and existing lines were innovative and the price was to about half a billion dollars. 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 the in vicious gang. 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 yet it's under. it's always done it's about ninety five

percent already with the. board and by the start of the elections it will be a hundred and yet it will one hundred ten very important if we we we connected to the network we each. camera we see in moscow 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 in fifteenth of december december it's russia it's siberia it's cable's and you had to dig it it's christmas and you literally had to dig. yeah yeah it's incredible and what we found new for me as well so. the in temperature on the minus fifteen. for people is blocking usually and i've seen by myself so sometimes people where heating people 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 we ever had so this is your camera can you show yourself a wire 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 sunday's monitor the picture is pretty good so what are so is this picture i will get on my monitor you will get the leading bit bigger picture in terms of quality service quality not so clear what will i be able to manage the pictures on my home computer what else is you. know you can. will the quality of the picture allow me to see what to see the names on the papers the protocols what can i see what i can see just like in the supermarket knives and shadows. there will be two kinds of someone come in with

shows the entire place where the election is go so that you can everybody can count for example number of people. to guess about and another another camera will show the police with their ballots. in english and. put the. box. after the end of the election process and the police who have books with staying. there will be the police for. members of execution cami two. will start counting the votes they will put out putting the table on to the counter not to the camera. sort of like this and yet the people will be counting what will be down here and if you know think. i'm going to happen

again and everybody can see it and very important and very well we are proud to be so far in good luck or a surprise the way. that after finishing the counting and the chief executive of this committee or what's. shown to the camera enlarged of the protocol did you have to change the law or do you have to change this truck shift for the 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 camera like this so we did not use the loo again they had to do it just right know that there is a clear instruction from the central election commission. and if they have to do so this whole procedure has been written yes and if somebody breaks the procedure will you be punished and penalize the what. you say for life everything that is of

all there is a. controlling member so you people people who control the people they will remove your ten years they will remind you this people are from different candidates and different parties so everybody. process of installing the cameras and he is it was done in a very open way. a very interesting thing one where we're talking now or when 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 actually willing to say yeah yeah this aggression so this is true but 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 from the it was

intentional of the prime minister to shoulder world that we can do the most work and clearly actions we will transparent boxes with scammer investors current process i know you're a more technical person than a political person but still i want to ask you just your opinion why do you think mr putin was so interested in having these transparent elections why these so interested there is no fraud in the upcoming presidential election is it because he wants to be like 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 a. will show that some small fractures can can be brought in the big picture i've seen some around there are border where they know that much tension.

is. described by the media and the same. well all the same. women that opportunity but same could be kept in and we've been watching the. police they all questioned so i think the prime minister decided to to have to show that. there is no questions in about democracy in russia all this lewdness to technology cool thing was a little smart move ok listen you ministry here you talked about all 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 lead. to the great amounts of money that you sell for 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 the spending so and we of course will report to the government until the parliament. i think you rings. on where we have spent. on the streets not so much money that. we spent it's a lesson for five hundred million dollars and if you take into account the world of science 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 by the way. our solar energy are right there we have to build a house with this project there will be a quite good internet connection by the way through quite about one megabit basic base perception to be collected and in there is regions with there will be no such

connection in forthcoming five for ten years. and there will this project be. the question would pay back so now will you will you what will you be able to so things technology i mean maybe someone abroad of interest is just you know who. i think you know i don't i think this technology itself built a very simple but very few. also true is written in russia and has no clout and we see the potential for this project. but for russia as well we see a lot of opportunity where we can use this similar to the elections. here between the election so in our society for example there is a big questions about. exams. you know unifying exams. the way it was done in some ways. in secondary school the reason

i'm asking about about this being efficient and being back is that you may know that the person who actually did this congestion charge system a lot never contact me i said yeah privately yeah i mean i mean he doesn't actually think about about money he had his family ever said your travels around the world and you know he made enormous amounts of 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 telecom which is. owned by government in principle how governments will gain such 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 in a cell with me have we got it because this guy this move this i had forgot his name he's just traveling around the world telling others how to do this and that's not the major. problem is the is the living standard to reside in britain but the guy

like here i. feel is a comfortable life now i just threw my was that we talking. through in the hour with deputy communications minister of russia spotlight will be back shortly after a break so stay with us they're going to. 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 cold. jones and. it's always personal. except one day when choice matters to everyone.

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of housing polish illegal immigration and introduce ethnicity stamps in passports controversy to colors communists usually vote with putin's party on the big issues abroad for exploiting soviet nostalgia with pensioners and the discontented industrial working class. presidential election two thousand and twelve on party. welcome back to spotlight just a reminder that my guest on the show today is the lead deputy communications minister of russia we're talking about the new and new system new computerized system that will help. everybody around the world especially in russia you can see it right now here on the table see how the election process will be taking place in russia during the presidential election you know monsieur has 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. it's done by government and it. will be a big sign for the participant since it isn't that the risk filming. filming instanter but still a person entering a calmly station to vote. has encouraged me to her i mean if he doesn't want to be filmed is it possible to know sam sam well not to get on screen ok well i think. first of all we fought all the cameras it was a little bit quiet in the room so that it's. filming from the bottom to the

from. the bottom. as a person who is killed. people doing little get loads of ordinary. it will be not noticed but very important that there is a phone line translation. transmission and. he is nor will be north very public let's say so by saying not very probably i mean that every word everything that was transmitted then will be filmed taped and kids kept inside your ministries and it will be kept in the last moments of minutes. so those who have been especially. responsibility for this are we will allow to some citizen to. be fully responsible guess who will be when the person who were the minister is in ministry will be for the minister himself to be

fully responsible so is there a possibility that that. the archives can be tackled with you know that something may be done with the archive material well there will be two archive scorpion one is in each notebook and as in. they will be some criticize someone so sometimes. it's very t.v. man so you know you it's very difficult to compromise while on line on line in the. film you have to facilitate with him well not always no cattle no. so way i don't think that anybody will do with the quality will we see the quality now we see it here on this laptop but when we start working with paperwork for example how this piece of paper to a camera and i try to i try to see it right here can we read what's written on this

paper and on your particular group and not know but on the protocol there will be large corpulent throughout the. country we have only five hundred parts and you can see where the cross is yes. so so if i hold the protocol right like this that there will be five people and a very important. sound recording as well and. chief. election committee will release the town last night and show you no reason to proclaim. it not a question least 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 in the transmission so if someone does the fraud but we can't see his face so. it wouldn't do much correct but it's

not system will not sure. more than more than a half of the screen so the it will show faces but no not not then watch that. and. fraud in the election as one of the more world legally prosecute. you took their persecutor both saying and. believe you see the police can find it criminal using the web cameras installed somewhere in the streets there which you can see anything with this much but. two hundred work working simultaneously many many hours in a row there's no i 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 through russia

but right now we i'm quite sure that. internet will for wife and. this two thousand cameras of course there is a technical fault that could be called to one or two percent but normally. we actually ninety five percent of people would have talked to a 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. and to see on the fourth of march the picture you have to subscribe. which it will do a true and right it's quite easy you can use any of social networks

i.d.'s any of. agent and use like google mail young the phrase little googling for thirds of scripts lawyers because of all sort of sort of merge certainly we step as a sort of margin just to be prepared to the force get through we'll see that system can survive with. described you know if we were ok now is it would be possible here a person can subscribe and get this breakthrough will be possible for him to record . on his computer in computer equipment so you can report it's easier to report you you can use green screen or something like this stuff who i. 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 polling stations and choose your i want you know you can go and you can go by using map or using a search engine. equalizations in the country. and the pictures if you see zoo map of russia was number of the polling station so you. will there be breaks in transmission or commercial breaks or something or it will be from the beginning to the end until until the final protocols are science well like nonstop . the translation will go to college and 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 the jews due to the fact that. russia has ninety time zones. one crosses stopped on there for

example in far east and transmission rules put on that carlos little star. will be played only on nine pm by moscow time so so so so it well it won't contradict the law because because you're not allowed to show the results you know until the last polling station advanced i see 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 cheering on whatever is a criminal offense well of course it's hooligans. because the so you use the group think there is already part of the election process and it's protected more along. all the police the police and so are instructed. to control this is another question maybe it's

a political questions but still how will these recordings later be available to the media will be available. to act as evidence in the courts for example how well our opinions are. for example currently jujutsu can. be any. in the video material the materials court has a good point he may take this material officially or even. 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. so there is no. no possibility to not accept that will there be a procedure to to make these recordings later i really do for us for journalists

for me to. think well we will think about it but look the archives there is a. personal detail. with whom you can do election process with your wife or with. your friend a lot of stuff 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 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 on tom and found what's going on. outside russia until then stay on r.t. and take it.

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