the chairman of the state duma committee on health protection, a famous oncologist, badma bashankaev, voted in his homeland. the deputy arrived in his native village of avata in kalmyki. and now kaliningrad. the first day of the russian presidential elections has ended in the westernmost region of our country. five voting points were opened on the borders of the kaliningrad region with poland and lithuania, so that russians living abroad can vote there. now alexey ankudinov is speaking directly from our studio from kaliningrad. alexey, greetings, how was your first day of voting, was everything calm and normal? good evening, everything went calmly, as usual, right now at the polling station where i am, they are opening the ballot box, putting the ballots into a special safe bag, you can say, yes, the polling stations have closed and the first day is over. in total, we worked with 563 sites in the kaliningrad region, that’s 5,500 employees. election commissions, according to the data at 18:00 the turnout was almost 25%, by lunchtime it had already exceeded 10%, as we know, this is a fa