Thank you for that question.
It's the International Republican Institute's understanding that preparations are being made by the central government to provide polling stations for Crimean residents to vote in Kherson oblast and possibly other locations as well. The question is this. If they set up these polling stations will people be allowed to transit freely out of Crimea to go vote, and then will they be allowed to return?
These are tricky questions and I'm sure there's a bit we could learn form the Georgia experience with voters from Abkhazia and Ossetia voting in Georgia proper.
I think that's a temporary solution to the problem, but I know there are groups that are on the ground working with the government to try to come up with a way to systematically make sure that voters are franchised in Crimea.
With eastern Ukraine, I think everything is scheduled to proceed accordingly. I know it is.
But again, Russia is preparing to destabilize those regions and make it so that those polling stations, those district commissions, are not able to carry out their electoral duties. That is something we need to be very careful about, and it's all the more reason for the presence of as many observers on the ground as possible, especially in eastern and southern Ukraine.
Thank you.