Brown bear comes to vote at a polling station in Western Siberia

The orphaned cub, adopted in April by Lesnaya Skazka Zoo became a star of the polling station organised at 42 Barnaul secondary school. 

Her handler and zoo keeper Alexander Chenotaryev said the Zoo was asked to bring the animal a night before the final day of voting on constitutional amendments in Russia.

‘We received a call last night and were asked to come’, he says in a video filmed inside a car on the way to the station. 

The bear is filmed next to him looking visibly stressed as she sucks Alexander’s fingers and arms. 

Little Glafira, or Glasha, performed in front of several waiting photographers as she sat at the chair by the voting table, grabbed a bottle with a sanitiser and then smashed down a pack of papers. 

Today was Russia’s main voting day on constitutional amendments, which might see Vladimir Putin staying in power for 16 more years.

Glafira the bear cub was found in the Altai mountains by the village of Ongudai. 

It is not clear what happened to her mother.