23:00, 7 December 2011

In Sochi, copies of election protocols stolen from city CPRF office

Documents scattered on the table in the robbed office of the city CPRF Committee, Sochi, December 6, 2011. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko to "Caucasian Knot"

At night on December 6, the doors of two rooms of the city office of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), located on the ground floor of the five-storey apartment building at 13 Gorky Lane, were broken. Copies of protocols of the Sochi polling stations at the December 4 State Duma elections were stolen from the office.

As reported by Yuri Dzaganiya, Chairman of the City CPRF Committee, the protocol copies of all the 210 PECs (precinct election commissions) of Sochi, which, according to his story, were proofs of the collected votes prior to transfer of the them to the TECs (territorial election commissions), were stolen.

"Sochi communists had gathered them in order to analyze the elections and establish frauds committed at the TECs," Mr Dzaganiya told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The members of the CPRF found the breakage and theft on December 6 in the morning. The police were called.

According to Yuri Dzaganiya, the robbers took nothing else but the protocols.

Author: Svetlana Kravchenko

Source: CK correspondent