Rosstat explained the new transfer of the population census with the elections

The census in Russia was again postponed, it will be held two weeks later than previously planned: not from October 1 to October 31, but from October 15 to November 14, follows from the draft government decree. The document was prepared by the Ministry of Economic Development and published on the portal of draft regulatory legal acts.

Rosstat explained to RBC that it was proposed to postpone the census after discussion with the leadership of the regions.

“According to the analysis of the readiness of the infrastructure and personnel of the regions for the census, the resources involved in organizing a single voting day will be used to organize it,” the statistical service said.

The day before, a meeting was held under the leadership of First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov with the regions, at which it was decided to postpone the census. As the head of Rosstat Pavel Malkov explained, this is due to the fact that the resources and IT infrastructure that are planned to be used in the census in the regions will be used a little earlier in a single voting day (September 19). Rosstat will need time to reconfigure this IT infrastructure, and people "to give a little rest."