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Putin decides on presidential quota of CEC members

03 March 2016 10:43 (UTC +04:00)

Baku - APA. Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on members of Russia’s Central Election Commission, thus appointing five of the total 15 CEC members, TASS reported.

The current CEC head Vladimir Churov is not in the presidential quota.

As the Kremlin’s press-service has said, in connection with the expiration of the CEC’s powers Putin decided to appoint to seats on a new election commission Russia’s human rights ombudsman Ella Pamfilova, CEC member Boris Ebzeyev, Communist State Duma member Vasily Likhachev, deputy head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service FAS Aleksandr Kinev and the Patriots of Russia’s representative in the CEC Yevgeny Shevchenko.

The decree is effective immediately.