four thirty pm in moscow he's here r.t. had life the people of russia voting for their next president will take the reins for the next six years all five candidates as well as around a third of our electorate have cast their votes under the watchful eye of hundreds of thousands of observers and live webcams at every ballot but. looking back on the week's top stories polls for a ceasefire in syria grow but reports of more arms smuggling in the arrest of more than one hundred mercenaries despite fears of international meddling damascus claims its apprehended arab and european gunmen including french nationals. all

but to e.u. leaders sign on to tough new budget controls to prevent nations from running up huge debts of struggling people across europe united against the cuts being imposed to save their economies. spotlight next highlighting the challenge of making russia's presidential elections the most open in the world. issues that so much of. which are right on it will be voting 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 we see change. hello again. like the interview show artsy. today my guest on the

show is. only a few hours left until the start of the most high tech presidential election in russia the polling stations are already by now and so are the two hundred thousand a well that will draw the balloting live on the internet has been a very ambitious and costly project of the russian government but insist it will be worth the life fee was put in his idea a debate will be election process transparent than ever before so it was a difficult to build such a network in such a short time and are there fish already to face several cold temperature of the state issues we'll discuss it with one of the project's masterminds deputy communications minister in the uk. the december parliamentary election and 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. runs some two hundred thousand cameras have been polling stations across russia so anyone can watch the ballot online it was a huge job to set up a system that will build an existing innovators and the prize was. a billion dollars. welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us well first of all congratulations far as i understand you're you're you're you're nearly there you nearly did it because because the the english 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. under. it's

always done it's about ninety five percent already equipped that. you've gotten by the start of the election there will be a hundred it will get the other two hundred m. very important if we we reconnected to the network and we each. camera we seen was quote resister 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 fifteenth of december december it's russia it's siberia it's cable's and you have to did it it's christmas and you literally have to did you did you exactly yeah yeah that's incredible and what we found that new for me as well so. the in temperature on the minus fifteen. optical cable is broken usually and i've seen by myself so it's on sometimes people where heating the cable before

putting putting it in 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 have are so so so this is your camera can you show yourself. whatever you were or i can i can see myself in the camera you know like this where or our photographer so as we can see as we can see on this on this 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 quality service quality and so what will i be able to marja the pictures on my home computer what it is you have to do you can. the quality of the picture allowed me to see what to see the names on the papers the product holes well what can i see what i can see just like in a supermarket like the shadows. of someone camera with shows into

a place where the action is go so that you can everybody can count for example the number of people coming to the to get the vault and another of another camera will show the place where they are both. in english and. the. books. and after that end of the election process and the police are with their books. staying. there will be the police were there with. members of the christian community you. will start counting the votes so they won't put it out put in a table until they can get down to the can. sort of like this and yet the people will be counting and what will be on here is really isn't that kind of feeling like you know think i was in the bag 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 what is shown to the camera enlarged corby of the protocol did you have to change the law or do you have to change an instruction for the fourth or 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 and they had to do it right know that there is a clear instruction from the central election commission. if they have to do so this whole procedure has been written yes and if somebody breaks the procedure will he be punished and penalize the what. can you say for god if you only have

a sense of all there is a. controlling members so your people people who control you cannot leave the people that will remind you ten years they will remind you this people are from different candidates and different parties so everybody has the process of installing the cameras and he's done in a very open way. a very interesting thing one zero one zero we're talking now. literally hours before before the upcoming elections there was lots of criticism. in the world in the russia itself. the manner in which the previous election was conducted i mean the parliamentary election. so is it 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 certainly looks this way. yes from the it was intentional as the prime minister to shoulder the world and we

do get most world war and clearly actions with. transparent boxes with camera and distance 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 was so interested in having these transparent elections why these so interested there's no fraud in the upcoming presidential election is it because he wants to be like like clear or like the same or is it because he was worried that there might be fraud against him. see the current political situation as a world shows that some small fractures can can be brought in the big picture like we've seen some arrival there aboard and we know that much tension.

is. described by the media and the same. we'll the same. cannot approach winter but same could be kept and if we march and have careers they all question so i think the prime minister decide to have to show that. there is no questions and about democracy in russia. knowledgeable thing or stimulus might move ok listen human history year you talked about one of these two hundred thousand cameras digging digging in siberia. temperatures and so when you spend a great deal of money will you have to count somebody to the parliament to the prime minister to some other body to lead to the great amounts of millions. of course well there is a start from the beginning of the project we've asked accounting chamber to join

our team and to control all the spending. and we of course will report to the government and to the parliament. i think hearings. where we have spent. on a stool it's not so much money. we spent it's less than five five hundred million dollars and if you take into account the number well the size of russia and that is the level of telecommunication we have unfortunately in some places a very good of the we didn't have electricity where we put a camera so by the way there are. some lenders you know when we have to believe that with this project there will be quite good internet connection by the way to request about one meter be specific has to be connected and in there is regions where they will be no such connection in forthcoming five for ten years

. and there will this project be. be pushing would pay back somehow will you will you will you be able to sell this technology i mean what made you so someone who brought all the interest just because. i think you know i think it's called itself built a very simple but very fishy. also too is written in russia and has no heart and we see the potential for this project. but for russia as well we see a lot of opportunity where we can use the similar actions and he said example between the elections so in our society for example there is a big questions about. exams. unit unified exams. the way it was done in some of the secondary schools in secondary

school the reason i'm asking about about this being efficient and bringing back a step you may know that the person who actually did this congestion charge system like you never can get me out of your own private yeah i mean even after think about about money here is probably ever since your travels around the world and you know busy he made enormous amounts of these very very rich now because he came up with the system so you don't something similar with the system belongs to the us telecom which is. owned by government it's well how governments will gain technology and then can be more reached you know why i'm not asking about who will get the money i just saying 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 traveling around the world telling others how to do this and better go to major. living reside right now like here are going to high level introduce the. culture of

all my life now i just reminded that we're talking. in the hour with so deputy communications minister of russia scott life will be back shortly after a bad self stay with us they're going to. we all make choices sometimes it's tough. but it can be an easy call and. the choice can be left to fate. or it can be. limited to. each other become. jones and. it's always personal. except one day when choice matters to everyone.

resistance is not a politics but a culture. this could. cultures of resistance and. welcome back the spotlight on now not just a reminder that my guest on the show today is ileana so deputy communications minister of russia we're talking about the new and new system new electronic 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 in your midst who 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 yet it's absolutely legal because we. it's done by government and it's. a risk will be a big sign for all. but you spence and citizens that there is filming. filming is done so but still cam a person and training only station to vote. is then called me to how i mean if he doesn't want to be filmed is it possible to see him sound somehow not to get on screen. whirl i think. first of all we have four. 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. people. a little bit lower. in the queue will be not noticed but very important that there is a on line cancellation. consultation transmission and. he will be in north very public let's say so what you're seeing was very public i mean that everybody everything that was transmitted and then will be filmed taped and kidd kept inside your ministries and it will be kept in the. moments of minutes . so those who have been especially. for responsibility for this or we will allow to some citizen to. be fully responsible

who will the person who are the minister the ministry will be for the minister himself to be fully responsible because there are so is there a possibility that that they are crimes can be tackled where they know that something may be done with their lives. well there will be two archive scorpion one in each notebook written denies in the beat and so they will be some criticize someone so sometimes. it's very t.v. land so you know you it's very difficult to compromise well online online. film. to facilitate with it i will not always know catalog. so well 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 paper. for example

out of this piece of paper to camera and i tried to i tried to see can we read what's written on this paper on your particular paper and not know but on the protocol there will be large quarter for throttle and. conclude we have only five hundred parts and you can see where the crosses yes. so so if i hold the protocol right like this then there will be five like people and had a very important. sound recording as well and chief. election committee will release their town line and show you who's approaching. the question least central electoral committee was quoted as saying that there were no 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 transmission so if someone does

the fraud but we can't see his face so. 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 in large that say and. fraud in the election is one of the world legally prosecute. they persecuted both saying. currently if you see the police can find a criminal using the. cameras installed somewhere in the streets which you can see anything with this much about. two hundred working simultaneously and many many hours in a row does that mean there is a possibility of an internet collapsing. around the beginning 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 or more but. we quite sure ninety five percent of the 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 sound so that's maybe you'll 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 this means that on sunday morning i can switch on the internet and try to get this picture. to see on the fourth of march the picture you have to subscribe to. where we believe. it

will do a true. scrape it's quite easy you can use any of social networks ideas any of. agent and use like google mail young. face little googling for thirteen scripts loiterers because of all sort of sort of my third certainly with their presence so the margin just to be prepared to force kids through will see the system can survive with. described well you know if we were going to 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 computers personal equipment so you can see it's easier to record you you can use print screen or something like this stuff like on.

a paper or. windows p.c. so it's very easy. something thousand polling stations around the country. allow me to switch between the stations and choose which around want you can go and you can go to using using map or using search engines. any polling stations in the country. and the pictures if you see zoo map of russia with number of polling stations so you will. be breaks in transmission of commercial breaks or something or it will be from the beginning to the end until the final protocols are signed well like nonstop. the translation will go. transmission the will go in between nine o'clock in the morning and nine o'clock until nine pm local time zone local times and then the jews due to the fact that.

russia has ninety plain zones. one selection process stopped on there for example and far east and the transmission rules powers. 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 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 don't know whatever is a criminal offense but of course it's wrong. because the. this system is already part of the election process and it's protected by law and

all the police policemen science to. and. to control this another question maybe it's a 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 ju ju chicken. in you in the video. materials has a good point he may take this material officially or even him and it they can they can use it as evidence and all the parties and candidates can use it and it will and will the courts accept it as well as legal evidence. there is no. no possibility to not accept it will there be

a procedure to to make these recordings later real before us for journalists for media. i think well we will think about it but look. there is a. personal detail so. you can do election process with your wife or. i see your friend a lot of stuff going in the personal life of the people so ok thank you thank you very much for being with us and just a reminder of my yesterday was. deputy communications minister of russia and that's it for now for all of us can strike light we'll be back with more first i would comment on what's going on. outside russia until then stay on r.t. and take care.

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