Vote and dance – thinking is optional, part 2 The elections in the Russian backwoods Grigory Pasko, journalist The time was 10:00 AM. People weren’t exactly arriving in droves: by 10 in the morning, 15 people had voted out of the 446 voters assigned to precinct No. 70. Galina Tyulyayeva clarified that it’s always like this: by the time they wake up, by the time they get here… With the help of two canes came a little old lady from Gagarin Street and announced that she wanted to vote in this particular precinct and no other, inasmuch as she’d never be able to get to her designated polling station. They wrote her in on a separate list, and she voted. (I later asked whom she had voted for. She replied: “For the party «A Just Russia», because this party promised to raise pensions”).