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RUSSIAN BORDER GUARDS IN ARMENIA TAKE PART IN ADVANCE VOTING FOR PRESIDENT
ITAR-TASS
February 20, 2012 Monday 07:46 PM GMT+4
Russia
Advance voting for the next President of Russia has begun at remote
outposts of the Russian border-guard troops located under the terms of
Armenian-Russian interstate agreements on the border between Armenia
and Turkey.
The enable the Russian citizens doing tours of military duty at
the border posts to use their constitutional right and elect a new
President of their homeland, the secretary and a member of the district
electoral commission had to use army cars and, on top of that, the
Bars /Snow Leopard/ snowmobiles.
The latter vehicles are especially needed to reach the outposts in
the Ibish section of the Gyumri Border Troops Detachment's zone of
responsibility where the snow banks lying on the ground are as tall
as an average man. The section is located at the junction of state
borders of Armenia, Georgia and Turkey.
Officials from the Russian electoral commission will visit all the
outposts where Russian border guards and their families are stationed,
even though the total number of people having the right to participate
in advance voting there is not very big - slightly more than fifty.
Early voting is held in line with Russia's federal law that specifies
the terms of voting in remote areas with a complicated terrain and
weather conditions.
Armenia took over the system of guarding its borders with Turkey
/total length 330 km/ and Iran /45 km/ from the former Soviet Union.
Armenian government believes that the deployment of Russian border
guards and the presence of a Russian military base on its terrritory
constitutes an important element of national security.
Russian border guards are stationed in the country under the provisions
of a September 30, 1992, interstate agreement on the status of Russia's
border forces the Republic of Armenia.
The department of Russian border troops in Armenia has four detachments
- in Gyumri, Armavir, Artashat, and Megri, as well as a separate
checkpoint at Yerevan's international Zvartnots airport.
The costs of the deployment in Armenia of about 4,500 Russian borders
force men and officers are shared by the two countries' governments
in approximately even amounts.
The tasks set forth to the Russian border troops in Armenia "at the
section entrusted to them are fulfilled a hundred percent," says
Lieutenant-General Viktor Vlassov, the commander of the border forces
on this country's territory.
ITAR-TASS
February 20, 2012 Monday 07:46 PM GMT+4
Russia
Advance voting for the next President of Russia has begun at remote
outposts of the Russian border-guard troops located under the terms of
Armenian-Russian interstate agreements on the border between Armenia
and Turkey.
The enable the Russian citizens doing tours of military duty at
the border posts to use their constitutional right and elect a new
President of their homeland, the secretary and a member of the district
electoral commission had to use army cars and, on top of that, the
Bars /Snow Leopard/ snowmobiles.
The latter vehicles are especially needed to reach the outposts in
the Ibish section of the Gyumri Border Troops Detachment's zone of
responsibility where the snow banks lying on the ground are as tall
as an average man. The section is located at the junction of state
borders of Armenia, Georgia and Turkey.
Officials from the Russian electoral commission will visit all the
outposts where Russian border guards and their families are stationed,
even though the total number of people having the right to participate
in advance voting there is not very big - slightly more than fifty.
Early voting is held in line with Russia's federal law that specifies
the terms of voting in remote areas with a complicated terrain and
weather conditions.
Armenia took over the system of guarding its borders with Turkey
/total length 330 km/ and Iran /45 km/ from the former Soviet Union.
Armenian government believes that the deployment of Russian border
guards and the presence of a Russian military base on its terrritory
constitutes an important element of national security.
Russian border guards are stationed in the country under the provisions
of a September 30, 1992, interstate agreement on the status of Russia's
border forces the Republic of Armenia.
The department of Russian border troops in Armenia has four detachments
- in Gyumri, Armavir, Artashat, and Megri, as well as a separate
checkpoint at Yerevan's international Zvartnots airport.
The costs of the deployment in Armenia of about 4,500 Russian borders
force men and officers are shared by the two countries' governments
in approximately even amounts.
The tasks set forth to the Russian border troops in Armenia "at the
section entrusted to them are fulfilled a hundred percent," says
Lieutenant-General Viktor Vlassov, the commander of the border forces
on this country's territory.