Front without rear

People without the front. Simple Russians, even with a very great desire, will not be able to join the All -Russian Popular Front, invented by Vladimir Putin to save United Russia. Only organizations are accepted into the front - the correspondent of The New Times found out, who in the end failed to enter the new structure either individually or at the head of the organization created by him
On May 26, the first stage of the formation of the Popular Front of Vladimir Putin ended. It was planned that, according to its results, regional departments of the front will be created in the regions and the process with the involvement of new supporters will go in full swing: not only party, as it was at the very beginning. It doesn’t work out with the other yet. Receptionists do not work, social activists do not go. The first loud refusal - the author and organizer of monstations in Yekaterinburg Artem Loskutov did not join the front. In Moscow, affairs are no better than in the regions. The New Times correspondent tried in every possible way to join the Putin Front - unsuccessfully.

The telephone carousel is the first call - to the public reception of the leader of United Russia Vladimir Putin. After all, it is on the Putin reception that the role of the coordinator and organizer of the front is entrusted. A benevolent middle -aged man Sergey Stanislavovich explained to the New Times to the correspondent that the ONF is not a state structure, but the union of unions, so they have no phone for communicating with private individuals. However, he added after a short thought, a special curator can work for single fans, which should be sought out in the Central Executive Committee (CEC) of United Russia. In the cyc, our call was met coldly, they asked: who was, why they are interested in joining the Popular Front. In the hope of piercing the party bonz, the correspondent introduced himself as the granddaughter of a war veteran who sincerely wants to enter the front and provide all kinds of support to the Prime Minister. This seems to have reassured the suspicious employees of the United Russia CEC, and the correspondent was issued to the correspondent of the girl Victoria, who allegedly works directly for the ONF forming. Victoria, however, listening to the same legend, for some reason advised the Veteran to leave a preliminary application on the website of the “Young Guard” “United Russia”. “Your questionnaire will be considered within one working day, and the curator Veniamin Rodnyansky will definitely contact you,” she promised and added: “Well, there you can see who will help anyone.”

On the website of the "Young Guard" the volunteer is really offered to fill out an application for joining the ONF. Just in case, the New Times correspondent sent as many as three applications: as a student of a daughter, as a representative of the sympathetic veteran and as a member of the student association. The same letters were sent directly to the ONF: from the official website of the Government of the Russian Federation, the user can go to the personal site of its chairman Vladimir Putin, on which, in turn, an advertising banner has been hanging for more than a week, clicking on which you find yourself on the page of this structure. Among other things, there is a survey "Personally will you enter the Popular Front?" - You can vote, but the results of the survey are closed to the eyes of the uninitiated. Immediately - a large button "Letter to the Front".

The New Times correspondent did not answer the correspondent of The New Times either from the front or from Mger.

By itself, the press service of United Russia to the question of what organizations can be included in the ONF and which are already included, the operator-operator answered with a sigh: “ONF has nothing to do with us-this is a completely independent organization! Already so because of this front, in recent days, crowds: either youth organizations go, then trade unions. ”

The young assistant to the chairman of the Russian Youth Union, who announced the support of the Popular Front, answered the New Times to call: “Yes, we are related to the front. Now all public organizations have the most direct relationship to this, ”and hung up.

All the same girl Victoria, finally, explained the correspondent of The New Times that there was no chance of joining the Popular Front in personal quality. If you want to join-be kind, go into some public association. Entered? Then call the regional reception (the phone can be found in the public reception of the Prime Minister), where you will be offered to come to the meeting to discuss the ONF declaration and, relying on it, write your own. The next step is to make an application (the form is sent to the email or sent by fax) in the name of Vladimir Putin personally. In the questionnaire, it is necessary to tell in detail about your organization. The questionnaire must be brought to the reception point on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, house 39, to the district council of Dorogomilovo and, part -time, the public reception of Vladimir Putin, where on the ground floor, directly opposite the toilet, there is an office for organizing the ONF declaration. In front of the cherished door, the New Times correspondent was inappropriately - in the middle of the day, during lunch. The guard guard could not say when dinner ends, but said that the next two days were not reception rooms. “Write down in line,” he suggested. - You can’t get into the composition of the coordination group, you will probably be listened to all other issues. On reception days. Better before lunch. "