PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, September 12. /TASS/. Polling stations opened in Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula at 8:00 a.m. Friday local time (8:00 p.m. Thursday GMT) to elect the region’s governor, giving the start to the single voting day in Russia, the Kamchatka Election Commission told TASS.
"At 8:00 a.m. local time, a total of 178 polling stations opened in all populated areas of the region. They will work from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on September 12, 13 and 14," the commission said.
Four people are running for the post of Kamchatka governor: Roman Litvinov, nominated by the regional office of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation; Dmitry Tyurin, nominated by the Kamchatka branch of the Communists of Russia party; United Russia nominee Vladimir Solodov and LDPR candidate Vasilina Kuliyeva.
An early vote was held in the region’s remote areas between August 24 and September 11.
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