A small village in a national park in Russia’s Chelyabinsk region is boycotting the upcoming regional elections where the pro-Kremlin incumbent governor seeks to secure his mandate because they have been cut off from the outside world by authorities’ negligence. The village of Tyulyuk, some 1,700 kilometers from Moscow, is located in a region nicknamed the “Urals Switzerland” because of the beauty of Zigalga National Park. Yet all that connects it to the nearest town is a 28-kilometer path through the forest ridden with potholes and pits that often floods due to the river overflowing its banks…
