Russian media said that according to the previous lottery arrangement, among the four candidates who should attend the Russian radio debate on 26th, Titov, sobchak and Grudinin did not attend in person, but were represented by their clients, and only zhirinovsky attended in person. The latter said that he was glad that the three candidates were absent from the debate because of fear, and ridiculed that the three candidates were absent because of "fear because they didn't understand foreign policy at all". He also suggested sending sobchak to prison, because she denied that Crimea belonged to Russia. Zhirinovsky introduced his diplomatic ideas in detail, thinking that this election will be a competition between him and Putin.
According to the previous decision of the Russian-Chinese Election Commission, eight presidential candidates will disclose their dates and time slots free of charge on five federal television channels and three radio stations, including "Russia 1", "Russia 24", "Channel 1", "TV Center", Russian public television, Russian radio station, lighthouse and Vesti FM. February 26th is the first broadcast debate. Two days later, on the 28th, the first TV debate will be held on Channel 1. However, Putin, who has the highest poll support rate, has made it clear that he will not participate in the public debate of the presidential election. In this way, TV viewers are expected to see the debates of seven other presidential candidates, namely Baburin of the All-China Alliance of Russia, Grudinin of communist party of Russia, zhirinovsky of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, sobchak of the Citizens' Initiative Party, Sulejin of communist party of Russia, Titov of the Growth Party and Yavlinski of the United Democratic Party.
Russian Liberal Democratic Party candidate Zhirinovsky opposes live broadcast of all debates. He suggested recording some debates in advance and broadcasting them at the scheduled time. Because hours of debate are unbearable. Sobchak, a candidate recommended by the Civic Initiative Party, criticized the debate in the morning. She hopes that the debate can be held in prime time from 7: 00 pm to 8: 00 pm, so that more viewers can understand the candidate's campaign platform. The Russian campaign headquarters is worried that all the candidates will participate in the TV debate at the same time, which will easily turn the debate into a "noisy farce".
The latest poll released by the All-Russian Public Opinion Center shows that 82% of people can name President Putin, while in sobchak and zhirinovsky, the proportion is 60%. 55% people can call Gertrudin by his first name; Half of the respondents couldn't name the other four candidates. According to the poll released by the official Russian polling agency WCIOM on June 5438+08, Putin is far ahead of all candidates with nearly 70% support rate, while the support rate of any other candidate does not exceed 10%. The poll number of the famous polling agency "Russian Social Public Opinion Foundation" in the same period was basically the same as that of WCIOM.
According to the report, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov said on the 22nd that, in view of Russia's unwarranted accusation of interfering in the 20 16 US presidential election, all US diplomats in Russia and all US agency personnel will be banned from voting supervision during this year's Russian presidential election, but American citizens who participate in voting supervision and observe the OSCE election will not be banned.