Thursday, December 17, 2015

Residents in Russian city overwhelmed by the corruption and nepotism of the politicians have demanded a cat to be the mayor and run the town.

Residents in the Siberian city of Barnaul overwhelmed by the corruption and nepotism of the politicians have demanded a cat to be the mayor and run the town.

Nominated on social media as a possible mayoral candidate, the cat named Barsik received the most votes, the Guardian newspaper reported.

Yevgeny Kuznetsov, a retired resident said that people are fed up with the corruption and do not know who to trust anymore, "Barsik owes popularity to people not knowing who to trust anymore."

Barsik received 91 percent of the votes out of the voting that more than 5,400 people participated in.

 The voting is arranged by the social media network VK 'Altair Online'. Full story...

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