As media in Russia's big cities trained their lenses on voters and ballot boxes, photographer Dmitry Markov took a stroll through the sunshine in the small town of Pskov in the country's west to see what else was going on.
Electing Not To Care: What Russians Were Doing When They Weren't Voting

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A soft toy with a serious case of bear-spreading, and an early visitor to the Crimea festivities

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A daydreaming storekeeper. With the reelection of Vladimir Putin virtually a foregone conclusion, Markov says this Sunday was much like any other day in Pskov.

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The biggest buzz in town was a celebration and fair marking the anniversary of the annexation of Crimea.

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A customer tries on a hat at the fair.