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I'll never leave him
The President of Russia was proclaimed the main bear of the country
Movements in support of Russian President Vladimir Putin are multiplying by leaps and bounds. Now he is being offered to become not just a national leader , but the main “bear”, because he helped United Russia, whose emblem is a bear, win the elections. And as support, they create a movement of young children, who not only do not yet have the right to vote in elections, but most likely (to their great happiness) do not really understand what politics is in Russia today.“Vladimir Putin is now the main bear of the country,” said Yulia Zimova, the head of the interregional “Bears” movement, who asked the president to become their mentor at a rally on Bolotnaya Square opposite the EU representative office yesterday. Thus, the children’s and youth wing of “Nashi” yesterday lowered the age limit for official supporters of Vladimir Putin: “Mishki” will accept schoolchildren aged from eight to 15 years.
As Ms. Zimova said in an interview with Interfax, the uniqueness of “Bears,” organized two months ago, is that “this is a backyard movement, so it is very difficult to compare it with the pioneers, with the scouts.” Therefore, the movement will pursue a policy on a “yard” scale—to organize “yard democratic republics.”
The “Bears” rally on Bolotnaya Square was part of the “Nashi” congratulatory program. About 30 thousand movement activists from all over the country gathered on Vasilyevsky Spusk and the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge to once again “say thank you” to Vladimir Putin and complicate the already difficult traffic situation in the capital.
Only the first rows, who were closest to the stage, actively participated in the congratulations: they at least somehow responded to the calls from the stage of Nashi commissars to wave flags and support the president. The main part of “Nashi” “spread out” over the area blocked off for them: someone, hiding from the police, drank beer, someone tried to get out “to freedom” through the police cordons. Every now and then girls appeared in the crowd clutching teddy bears to their chests - activists of the new movement. Sometimes larger bears appeared in the crowd - activists in suits. Apparently, in support of the idea of the “Bears”, after the end of the rally, the leader of “Nashi”, and also the head of the recently organized State Committee for Youth Affairs, Vasily Yakemenko , decided to try on this costume: walking in this form in front of the stage, he took pictures with activists of the movement.
After the end of the holiday, the “nashi” went for a walk, and at the same time patrolled the Moscow streets. The policemen who blocked Red Square did not allow activists with paraphernalia onto it, so the young “Za Putinites” were faced with the question: either be left without the signature white raincoats with the face of Vladimir Putin and the inscription “Our Victory”, or never walk through the center of Moscow, for which the majority Of these, in fact, came to the capital. As a result, many threw the printed portraits to the steps of GUM.