Election day in Siberia
Our absentee ballots arrived this morning via FedEx. We cast our secret ballots and they are going back FedEx in the morning. Though our ballots are secret, it is no secret that we voted for Peter Hutchinson, Mark Ritchie, and Amy Klobuchar! We are in the International Studies Office at NSU in this photo.
Bob is handing our completed ballots to Ian Reznitchenko so that he can deliver them to the FedEx driver in the morning. Ian has been our university contact for our stay here. He has answered a myriad of questions and smoothed the way for our stay. We could not have done this visit without all of his guidance and assistance. You can tell from his photo what a pleasant fellow he is!Later in the afternoon we ran into Ian and his son Grigory at the Trade Center in Akademgorodok.
posted by Peggy W at Wednesday, October 18, 2006
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Is that picture from your apartment?
This is in the International Studies office at the university. Ian Reznitchenko took the picture. Ian is the one who picked us up at the train station at 2:30 in the morning when we arrived 5 weeks ago. He has helped us get hot water, extra keys to the apartment, a cell phone, he arranged the FedEx pick up of the ballots; he explained how to use the jitneys to get to Novosibirsk; he has been available to answer questions and make phone calls for us that we cannot manage ourselves. He saw us a lot during the first week we were here...fortunately for Ian, he has seen less of us lately as we are getting along pretty well now.
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