MOSCOW. March 6 (Interfax) - The election commissions in Russia's four new regions have held their first organizational meetings, the Russian Central Elections Commission (CEC) said.
"The first organizational meetings took place in all recently formed election commissions of the new regions of Russia," the CEC said on Telegram on Monday.
The first such meeting of the election commission of the Donetsk People's Republic took place on March 2, of the election commission in the Zaporozhye region on March 3, and of the election commissions in the Lugansk People's Republic and the Kherson region on March 6, it said.
At the first meeting, the commission members elect the commission's chair, deputy chair and secretary by secret ballot, the CEC said.