The election campaign of the State Duma -- lower house of parliament -- will be quiet, Russian Central Elections Commission Chairman Vladimir Churov said in the Segodnya program of the NTV television channel on Sunday.
"That would be a quiet election in a stably developing Russia," Churov was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as saying. "One should not expect wars, revolutions or shocks from this election campaign."
The new Russia has had more elections of the State Duma than Russia ruled by tsars, Churov said. There were only four State Dumas in the imperial Russia, and the modern Russia is electing its fifth.
The Russian electoral system is rather well developed, Churov said. "We have been electing the State Duma for the past 16 years, and we may teach our neighbors many election technologies, including the ballot counting techniques," he said.
Earlier on Sunday President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the State Duma elections on Dec. 2. The official release of this ordinance by the Rossiiskaya Gazeta newspaper on Tuesday will launch the election campaign.
Source: Xinhua
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