Local elections in Ukraine took place with a record of all violations of international electoral standards, told reporters the head of the state Duma on CIS Affairs, Eurasian integration And relations with compatriots Leonid Slutsky.

"Local elections in Ukraine took place with a record of all violations of international electoral standards. They cannot be called fair, just And democratic ", - said Slutsky.

according to him, independent observers have recorded numerous cases of bribery And fear-mongering have come to elections, fraud in the counting of votes." valaisiana was thwarted in Mariupol, Krasnoarmeysk. Not to mention the fact that elections were in fact cut off all political forces, which somehow stand for the restoration of relations with Russia ", - said the people's Deputy of the state Duma.

"This election is another act of Ukrainian theater of the absurd with the same mess, the partisanship of political elites And mistrust of ordinary people to the Kiev authorities. And in this sense, a test of "double standards" will be the reaction of the West, " - said the head of the state Duma.

Local elections in Ukraine took place on Sunday. In the Donbass elections were held only in part of the territories controlled by Kiev. In late summer the CEC of Ukraine adopted a decree, which determined the Kiev-controlled areas of Luhansk And Donetsk regions, where No Local elections were held. They were Not carried out in 91 local Council in Artemovsk, Volnovakha, Volodarsky, Konstantin, Maryino, Starobeshevo, Yasinovatskiy districts of Donetsk region, and similarly in the towns Avdiyivka, Artemivsk, Horlivka, debaltseve, Dzerzhinsk, Dokuchayevsk And Konstantinovka.

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