Who is campaigning for whom - stars in the service of presidential candidates

Presidential candidates actively resort to the help of celebrities campaigning for them, primarily from the world of art and the media. Together with their chosen ones, singers, directors, athletes and writers have reached the finish line of the fight for the presidency

Presidential candidate Vladimir Putin can boast of the largest number of attracted celebrities. The federal election headquarters of the current prime minister is headed by film director Stanislav Govorukhin . The regional headquarters include actor Emmanuil Vitorgan (Astrakhan region), TV presenter Leonid Yakubovich (Chuvashia), member of the group "Disco Accident" Alexey Ryzhov (Ivanovo region), theater director and playwright Nikolai Kolyada (Sverdlovsk region). The list of members of the Moscow headquarters includes singer Roxana Babayan , jazz musician Igor Butman , film director, head of Mosfilm Karen Shakhnazarov , president of the International KVN Club Alexander Maslyakov . St. Petersburg nominated actor Mikhail Boyarsky , artistic director of the Mariinsky Theater Valery Gergiev , and director of the Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky in support of Mr. Putin. The chief editor of the Russia Today TV channel, Margarita Simonyan , judging by the information on the website putin2012.ru, is part of two headquarters at once - in Moscow and in the Krasnodar Territory.

Locally known artists and media figures have been recruited to participate in Vladimir Putin's election campaign in the vast majority of regions. Among the numerous directors of theaters, philharmonic societies, museums and other cultural institutions, the head of the Ivanovo recording studio "Ivan Records" Konstantin Godynsky , the editor of the radio station "Russian Radio - Bui" and at the same time the head of the "Young Guard" branch in the city of Bui, Kostroma region, Mikhail Dushin , "champion" world accordion" and organizer of the annual international festival "Vivat, accordion!" Sergei Voitenko (Samara region) and director of the Korean Television program Kim Chu Dya (Svetlana Mikhailovna) from the state television and radio company Sakhalin. It is also impossible not to note the support of Vladimir Putin by the directors of the museum-reserves "Mikhailovskoye" ( Georgy Vasilevich ), "Kulikovo Field" ( Vladimir Gritsenko ), "Yasnaya Polyana" ( Vladimir Tolstoy ) and even "Shushenskoye" ( Galina Bugaeva ).

In addition to representatives of culture, Mr. Putin attracted distinguished people from other spheres, primarily from the world of sports, to his headquarters. The Moscow headquarters included figure skating coach Tatyana Tarasova , the Mordovia headquarters included the President of the Russian Tennis Federation Shamil Tarpishchev , and the Ingush headquarters included Olympic champions, wrestler Nazir Mankiev and boxer Rakhim Chakhkiev . In the Belgorod region, MMA fighter Fedor Emelianenko spoke in support of the prime minister, in the Sverdlovsk region - four-time Olympic champion in swimming Alexander Popov , in the Krasnodar region - handball goalkeeper, three-time Olympic champion Andrei Lavrov . Finally, in the federal election headquarters of the candidate there is a children's doctor Leonid Roshal , and in Mordovia - the rector of the Russian Economic University. Plekhanov Viktor Grishin .

At the same time, among Vladimir Putin’s chosen supporters there were also citizens who were not obvious from the point of view of the type of social and labor activity. In Yakutia, the deputy chairman of the Sobriety Society of the City of Yakutsk, Valery Lyuty , will campaign for the head of government; in the Trans-Baikal Territory, this fate will fall to the chairman of the regional society of psychiatrists, Nikolai Govorin , and in the Astrakhan region, to the head of the coloproctology department of the Alexander-Mariinsky Regional Clinical Hospital, Vladimir Yesin . In the Volgograd region, Vladimir Putin will be assisted by Vladyka German (Metropolitan of Volgograd and Kamyshin), in the Rostov region - a specialist in serial killers, in particular an expert in the Chikatilo case, Alexander Bukhanovsky .

Only businessman Mikhail Prokhorov can compete with Vladimir Putin in terms of attracting celebrities to his side. The public council under the candidate includes the general director of the All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature Ekaterina Genieva , basketball player Andrei Kirilenko , directors Pavel Lungin and Valery Todorovsky , general director of the RBC-TV channel Alexander Lyubimov , singer Alla Pugacheva , vice-rector of the Russian School of Economics Konstantin Sonin , actors Konstantin Khabensky and Leonid Yarmolnik . Mr. Prokhorov's election headquarters is headed by former NTV journalist Anton Krasovsky .

Candidate Sergei Mironov boasts actress Rimma Markova at the head of his campaign headquarters, as well as director Yuri Grymov and editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Your 6 Sotok” Andrei Tumanov among his trusted officials.

Gennady Zyuganov, apparently, is counting on the support of his comrades in the Communist Party of the Russian Federation - Nobel laureate Zhores Alferov , director Vladimir Bortko and cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya .

The participation of A-list stars in the campaign of candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky has not yet been reported.

Prepared by Vadim Zaitsev

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