Headquarters of the boss

The Moscow regional headquarters of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin was headed by the Vice Speaker of the State Duma Lyudmila Shvetsova, according to the Putin 2012 website. The Moscow headquarters included the co-owner of Bosco di Ciliegi Mikhail Kusnirovich, the director of Transaero Olga Pleshakova, the presidential representative of cultural cooperation Mikhail Shvydka, Moskhordumi deputy Moskvin-Tarkhanov, teacher Efim Rachevsky, trainer Tatyana Tarasova, directors Valery Fokin and Karen Shakhnazarov, musician Igor Butman, singer Roxan Babayan, TV presenters Elena Malysheva, Alexander Maslyakov and Margarita Simonyan, traveler Dmitry Shparo, as well as State Duma deputy, head of the Moscow veteran organization Vladimir Dolgikh.

In St. Petersburg, the director of the Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky, the artistic director of the Mariinsky Theater Valery Gergiev, actor Mikhail Boyarsky, the skier of Lyubov Egorova, will work in Putin's election headquarters.

In December, director Stanislav Govorukhin accepted Putin’s proposal to head his election headquarters in the presidential election. “I will take up this activity with all my heart,” said Govorukhin at a meeting of the Coordinating Council of the All -Russian Popular Front. Govorukhin assured that he would enjoy work as the head of Putin’s election headquarters.

“I will take this, of course, with my soul, but I can’t guarantee you now that your choice is perfect, that you have chosen exactly that person, because the experience is not May,” he said.

Govorukhin added that he has many questions for Putin. “You told the country about your plans, but I would like to know more, because you will have to communicate with people. You can, of course, answer how Suvorov at the time when they asked:“ What is the plan of your campaign? ”He took off his hat and said“ that my head knows, even my hat should not know. ”But I think you should be more frank with the headquarters,” Govorukhin said.

Govorukhin was the first to speak in support of Putin at the second part of the Congress of United Russia. “I remember, about 20 years ago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn outraged the intelligentsia by saying that it was young democracy that needed strong power, which could lead the country on the right path,” he said. Now, the director noted, Russia again "needs a bold, strong, smart, capable leader, not only capable of protecting the rights and freedoms of citizens, but also remind them of their duties." “We have such a person - this is Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin,” Govorukhin finished his speech.

On January 16, Govorukhin stated that Putin was relying in his presidential campaign not on United Russia, but on the All -Russian Popular Front, since "unicorns made many mistakes." “This is probably right, because, firstly, United Russia made many mistakes, what can we say about them now. And secondly, United Russia is a small layer of society, and the Popular Front is the whole country,” said Govorukhin.

“Naturally, if you are the president of the country, it seems to me, it seems to me to focus on one batch,” Govorukhin added. He also commented on the rallies "for honest elections", including the most massive rallies in Bolotnaya Square and on Sakharov Avenue in Moscow. “On Bolotnaya Square below are those who have come to defend civil rights, to exercise their constitutional right to rallies and meetings, people who are really dissatisfied with something. And there are people who are torn to power on the rostrum. This is a completely different audience,” Govorukhin said.