the week's news in the very next about it and sarah nazi russians go to the polls to choose their next president who will govern the country for six years of its promise to be the most transparent date for themselves problems monitoring and polling stations. and other news this week fears of outside intervention escalate in syria as around one hundred suspects in the first missing french quarter fleet was formed almost rebels also claim they've been supplied with french and american weapons supplied with stones up to the government killing civilians and.

also e.u. states signed up to tough budget rules to stop overspending of britain in the czech republic many are in it to much take rallies took place in several european countries against polish cuts supposed to save the single currency. when next we speak to them and behind the project to install the web cameras on cross the biggest country in the world to help ensure russia's presidential vote is fair and transparent spotlight is coming right up. there is that so much of. which of course you write on it will be going for the future in two days' time russians will go to the polls to elect their next president what is the nature of russia's political system how is it changed.

hello again no one coming to spotlight. party. today my guest on the show. only a few hours that left until the start of the most hyped up presidential election in russia says the polling stations are already buying and so are the two hundred thousand in work that will go after the balloting live on the internet it is being a very ambitious and costly project of the russian government but insists it will be where the line fee was put it was idea aimed at making to be election process more transparent than ever before so was it difficult to build such a network shirts. are there fishel ready to face certain 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 election and russia caused huge public outrage amid allegations of penetrating 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 built in existing lines were related and the prize. was 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 because the the invasion. 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. very important by the start of the elections it will be a hundred it will get young it will be very important if we we connect them to the network we each share. camera we see more school closures are 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 in fifteen so of december until december it's russia it's siberia it's cable's you have to dig it it's christmas and you literally have to did you exactly yeah yeah that's incredible and what we found that new for me as well so. that in temperature minus fifteen.

four to go people is brought in usually. seen by myself so sometimes people wear heatings of people before putting putting it on the ground here you brought with you an example of what they will have on the part of the station so here we have here where they had were so so so this is your camera can you show yourself a wire or i can i can see myself in the camera like this on or or our photographer so as we can see as we can see on this sunday monitor the picture is pretty good so what are so is this the picture i will get on my monitor you will get a little bit bigger. in terms of quotes you saying this morning so what will i be able to large of the pictures on my home computer what it says it is used to do 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 where i can see just like in a supermarket like some shadows. there would be two kinds of some one camera with shows the entire place where the election is go so that you can everybody can count for example the number of people keen. to get the balls. another of another camera will show the place where they are both. in english and. the. their books are not dealt with and after the end of the election process and the police with their books with staying. there will be the police who were. members of excuse incognito. will start counting the votes so they will put it out to your table and to the

camera not to the camera. sort of likeness and yet the people will be counting and what will be on kids who isn't that kind of you know there will be under your eyes of the class 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 as a chief executive for this committee or what he's shown to the camera enlarged copy of the protocol and why did you have to change the law or do you had to change destruction for the for the election commission so they have to do this they have to go and do a camera and not elsewhere they have to show the product how the camera like this so we did not use the word yet but they have to do it not just right know that there is a clear instruction from the central election committee. if they have to do

so this whole procedure has been written yes and if somebody breaks the procedure will you be punished penalize the one. thing for god every poll results of all the . controlling members so your people people who control the reality of the people they will remain ten years they will remind exist people from different candidates and different projects so everybody. process of installing the cameras and this was done in a very open way. a very interesting thing right now would talking now when there's not literally hours before before the upcoming elections there was lots of criticism in the world in the russia itself about the the the the manner in which the previous election was conducted i mean the parliamentary election movement yet you disagree so is it 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. and yes it was intentional the prime minister or shoulder world that we can do the most well and clearly actions with the. transparent boxes scammer investors are in 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 was so interested in having these transparent elections why he's so interested that 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. will show that some small fractures can can

be brought in the big picture like we've seen some around there are bored and where they know that much tension. is. described by the media and the same. will seem. to not approach into but same could be happening we march from the. police their own questions so i think the prime minister decided to have to show that. there is no question about democracy in russia. knowledgeable think was a smart move ok listen you ministry here you talked about well these two hundred thousand cameras digging digging in siberia in this 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 or some other body to need to do to the great amounts of money and.

of course well there is a start from the beginning of the project we fast accounting chamber to join our team and to control all the spending so there we of course will report to the government and to the parliament. i think hearings. on where we have spent. almost leads not so much money. we spent less than five five hundred million dollars. if you take into account the number of the size of russia and the level of telecommunication we have unfortunately in some places and we do know we didn't have electricity where we put cameras goes away. or some energy or when we have to build a house with this project there will be quite good internet connection

by the way through quite about one meter being perceived as a second that could be collected and in there is regions with there will be no such connection in forthcoming five for ten years. and there was this project be. freshen would pay back some now will you will you will you be able to so since technology i mean what made you so someone abroad all the interest is to go. i think you know i think it's called itself built a very simple but very efficient. although all sort through is written in russia and it has no clout and we see the export but potential for this project. but for russia as well we see a lot of opportunity where we can use a similar to in the elections and he said the south of here between the elections

in our society for example there is a big question it's about. exams. as you know unified example. the we it was done in some. instances going through 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 a lot you never congestion charge in your own travel here i mean he doesn't have to think about about money he and his family ever said he just travels around the world and you know busy he make enormous amount and he's very very rich now because he came up with a system so you don't something similar with the system belongs to the com which is partially owned by government increase will governments will gain such technology and then can be more reached you know why i'm not asking about who will get the money i just think that the system like this may be efficient and may sell it may have been a bit because this guy this move this i don't know i forgot his name he's just

travelling around the world telling others how to do this and that's not the major . living's not reside in. the guy like here are the interviews the feel is the comfortable life not just a reminder that we talking. in the on the so deputy communications minister of russia the spotlight will be back shortly after a bit south stay with us though because. we all make choices sometimes it's tough. but it can be an easy call and. choice can be left to fate. or it can be. minutes of. each on the comb.

shows and. it's always personal. except for one day when choice matters to everyone. welcome back to spotlight just a reminder there were a 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 has the man is the mastermind behind this system we've talked about how it's working now a couple of short b.v.

yes or no specific questions first of all is filming inside the polling stations absolutely legal yet it's absolutely legal because. it's done by government and it's. as a result will be a big sign for all. participants and citizens there is filming. filming instanter but still a person entering a police station to vote. in cognito i mean if he doesn't want to be filmed is it possible seems sound sammael not to get on screen ok well i think. first of all we 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. people skew so after

a little bit lower. it will be not noticed but very important that there is on line cancellation consultation transmission and. he is nor will be in north 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 be kept in the process a little more. so than those who have been especially. response ability for the circle we will allow to some citizen to. be fully responsible guess who will be all the person who are 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 archives can be tackled with you know that something

may be done with the archives. well as there will be to our quest corp a one is in each note book written as in the. they will be some criticize somewhere so sometimes. it's very t.v. man so you know you it's very difficult to compromise while online online. feel free to facility it was a very well not always no catalogue. so i don't think that the anybody will the quality will we see the quality now we see it here on this laptop but when we start working with paper roll for example out of this piece of paper camera and i try to i try to see can we read what's written on this paper and on your particular approach and not know but on the protocol there will be enlarged or people brought home and this country we have only five hundred parts and you can

see where the cross is yes not so so so if i hold the protocol right like this then there will be five people and very importantly there is a sound recording as well and. chief. election committee will release their town line and show you who's approaching now the question least central electoral committee was quoted as saying that there were no cameras will not show faces now. 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 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 those it will show faces but not then

watched let's say and. fraud in the election as one of them moves the world legally prosecute. the prosecutor both saying in the country if you see the police can find a criminal using the webcam was installed somewhere in the streets which you can see anything with this is much better. two hundred workers working simultaneously many many hours in a row does that mean there is a possibility of an internet collapsing on russia and 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'm 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 or two percent of the normal. we are ninety five percent of the people would have thought here minister here in this studio he said. that. many people and millions of people may like to watch that sound so that maybe you will have to subscribe 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. mean that on sunday morning i can switch on the internet and try to get this picture. to see on the fourth of march as a picture you have to subscribe. where we very. well go through and scrape it's quite easy and you can use any of social networks i.d.'s any of. agent and use like google mail young.

face little deadline for subscription orders because of all sort of sort of my fears that certainly we step as a third of the market just to be prepared to the force in case we will see the system can so wife. described. 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 its computers personal equipment so you can it's easier to recall you can use print screen or something like this stuff. on you just on a paper or the 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 stations and choose one with your i want you know you can go and you can go. using map or using searches or.

any police stations in the country. and the pictures if you see zoo map of russia was number of polling station so you. suppress the brakes in transmission of commercial breaks or something it will be well from the beginning to the end until until the final protocols are signed well like nonstop. the translation will go through 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 nineteen time zones. once the election process stopped for example and far eastern the transmission was put on that. little song. will be played to only nine

pm by moscow time so so so so it's well it won't contradict the law because because you are not allowed to show the results yet until 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 tap on the webcam and try to stick cheering i want on whatever is it a criminal offense. hooligans. because in the. british very quickly this system is already part of the election process and it's protected by law and all the police call it an insider instructed. to control there's another question maybe 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 or well our opinion that it will for example currently jujutsu can. any. video material and materials as a complaint he may take this material officially and it can then they can they can use it as evidence and all the parties and candidates can use it and do it well and will the courts accept it as well as legal evidence. that 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 and i think well we will think about it but look on the archives there is a. personal data. with whom you come through election process with your wife or.

girlfriend a lot of stuff is going in the personal way for the people so. thank you thank you very much for being with us and just a reminder never yesterday was. deputy communications minister of russia and that's it for now from all of us tried light we'll be back with more first i'll comment on what's going on. outside russia until then stay on r.t. and take your. russia votes for president r.t. looks at the five running for the crown the top job the candidate. of sixty seven chance to achieve communism from before his time on the record second in all

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