DUSHANBE, October 17, Asia-Plus - Some 240 international observers to monitor presidential election in Tajikistan have been to date accredited with Tajik MFA, Muhibullo Dodojonov, a spokesman for the Central Commission for Elections and Referenda (CCER), said, adding that in total, more than 700 international and 15,000 local observers to monitor the voting process on November 6. 

68 constituencies with totaling 3,200 polling stations have been set up in the republic for the upcoming presidential election.  Besides, the central electoral commission is setting polling stations in 15 countries around the world.   

In Russia, the polling stations have been set up in 28 cities, Muhammad Egamzod, press secretary at the Tajik Embassy in Moscow, said in an interview with Asia-Plus by telephone.   “The polling stations have been established Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Samara, Kemerovo, Perm, Yekaterinburg, Volgograd Irkutsk, Ulyanovsk, Saratov, Tolyatti, Tyumen, Astrakhan, Tver, Tula, Yaroslav, Kazan, Kransnodar, Kaliningrad, Ryazan, Orienburg, Penza, Kemerovo, Novokuznetsk, Kaluga, Chelaybinsk and Yaroslav,” Egamzod said.  

According to the electoral commission, the polling stations have also been set up in Belarus (Minsk), China (Beijing), Afghanistan (Kabul and Mazor-i Sharif), India (New Delhi), Pakistan (Islamabad), Iran (Tehran), Germany (Berlin), Austria (Vienna), Belgium (Brussels), and the United States (Washington and New York).