Russia demanded to ensure the security of State Duma elections in Ukraine
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation made a joint statement to the Ukrainian authorities calling on them to ensure the security of holding elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation on the territory of the country. This was stated today by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.
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“On the territory of Ukraine, such polling stations will be established at the Russian Embassy in Kyiv and the Consulates General of the Russian Federation in Odessa, Lvov and Kharkov,” Zakharova said.
She recalled that in accordance with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961, the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 1963 and the Consular Convention between the Russian Federation and Ukraine of 1993, the Ukrainian authorities are obliged to take all appropriate measures to protect the premises of the embassy and consular offices of the Russian Federation.
Previously, the buildings of the Russian Embassy and Consulates in Ukraine, as well as the representative office of Rossotrudnichestvo in Kyiv, were repeatedly attacked by Ukrainian nationalists.
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