In Photos: Residents of Remote Areas Start Voting in Russia's Presidential Election
Early voting for Russia’s presidential election is underway in remote areas of the country and parts of Moscow-occupied Ukrainian territories.
“Mobile polling stations,” whereby poll workers set up a makeshift voting booth outdoors, have already appeared in hard-to-reach settlements in Russia’s North, Siberia and Far East.
Russia's Central Election Commission (CEC) said its representatives are also visiting weather and polar stations as well as reindeer herding camps, making their way to voters by helicopter, snowmobile and even dog sled.
The early voting is scheduled to end on March 14, a day before regular voting — which has also been extended to a three-day period — commences.
Here is a closer look at how residents of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula and Far Eastern republic of Sakha (Yakutia) are participating in the process:
“Mobile polling stations,” whereby poll workers set up a makeshift voting booth outdoors, have already appeared in hard-to-reach settlements in Russia’s North, Siberia and Far East.
Russia's Central Election Commission (CEC) said its representatives are also visiting weather and polar stations as well as reindeer herding camps, making their way to voters by helicopter, snowmobile and even dog sled.
The early voting is scheduled to end on March 14, a day before regular voting — which has also been extended to a three-day period — commences.
Here is a closer look at how residents of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula and Far Eastern republic of Sakha (Yakutia) are participating in the process:
An election commission member visits Cape Lopatka, the southernmost point of the Kamchatka Peninsula.
Yelena Vereshchaka / TASS
A weather station and a border outpost are the only inhabited settlements on Cape Lopatka, which is known for its harsh climate.
Yelena Vereshchaka / TASS
Election commission workers hold up a poster with information about the four presidential candidates.
Yelena Vereshchaka / TASS
Election commission members visit a military outpost on Cape Zheltiy in Kamchatka.
Yelena Vereshchaka / TASS
A Russian military servicemember casts a vote at a makeshift polling station on Cape Zheltyi.
Yelena Vereshchaka / TASS
CEC representatives pose with a Russian flag in shape of a pro-war "V" symbol and a banner that reads "Kamchatka is the first in the country to greet the sun and to choose a president."
Yelena Vereshchaka / TASS
CEC representatives arrive to set up a polling station in Ulakhan-An, a rural locality in the republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
Vadim Skryabin / TASS
A local man fills out a voter registration form at a polling station in Ulakhan-An.
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A man casts his ballot at an outdoor “mobile polling station” in Ulakhan-An.
Vadim Skryabin / TASS
Based on statistics from the 2018 presidential race, less than 1% of all voters are expected to cast their ballots during the early voting period.
Vadim Skryabin / TASS
