Close to a hundred Russian citizens living in Chennai, including some from Bengaluru, cast their vote in the eighth Presidential elections of the Russian Federation at the Russian Cultural Centre in Alwarpet here on Sunday. The voting process began on Friday in Russia and the results will be announced on Monday.
Oleg N. Avdeev, the Consul General of the Russian Federation in Chennai, was one of the voters along with his staff and said that polls were an important event that would determine the future of every country.
“In Chennai, we have polls only on Sunday for the people who mostly live here, and we have people coming from Bengaluru. We expect around 100 people from Russian staff and other Russian people working in India and other Russian nationals (mostly spouses of Indian nationals) who stay here permanently [to cast their votes]. Earlier, we had polls in other parts of consular area in other parts of South India and Puducherry (in Auroville) approximately two weeks ago,” he said.
