By IANS/RIA Novosti,
Moscow : Probably the oldest in Russia to do so, a 116-year-old man cast his vote for the presidential elections Sunday at a polling station in Ingushetia in Russia’s North Caucasus.
Iliyev Appas Lorsovich, born in 1896, came to polling station No. 6 in the village of Guli, said Muslim Albogachiyev, a member of the regional election commission.
The elderly and sick have the right to vote at home if they invite a member of the local election commission beforehand. However, retirees are usually the first ones to arrive at the polling stations when they open at 8 a.m.
Russians voted Sunday to elect a president for the fifth time in the nation’s post-Soviet history. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is facing four opponents.
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