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Members of the local electoral commission carrying a portable ...
Feb 29th, 2012
(Reuters) - Members of the local electoral commission carrying a portable ballot box for a preliminary voting leave the train at the Pinchino railway station, about 100 km (62 miles) east of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, February 29, 2012. Russians will vote in presidential elections on March 4. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: ELECTIONS POLITICS) -
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