The Russian Election on Webcams

Thousands of webcams were installed across Russia to help monitor the presidential elections which took place on Sunday.

It turns out many of those webcams provided a welcome distraction if not an entertaining look at Russian life.

Anchor Marco Werman gets details from Andrei Zolotov, a online journalist in Moscow.

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