Peskov: Putin will win in the first round

Vladimir Putin will win in the first round of the presidential election. This was in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda by the press secretary of Prime Minister Dmitry Peskov. "At least this convincing support that we saw on Poklonnaya Gora, as well as dry figures of sociologists, affirmatively testify to the first round," Peskov said. He also said that the penalty for exceeding the number of protesters on Poklonnaya Gora, who promised to pay Putin, he would give it out of his pocket. “At least he said so,” he explained. “He doesn’t call the amount. They call the authorities of Moscow. If there is such a fine, then Vladimir Vladimirovich said that he would pay him.”

"On Poklonnaya Gora, it was not only a rally for Putin, as I understand it, the people came out, who probably got attempts to swing the situation. Yes, some tell mainly on the Internet how supposedly people were bought on Poklonnaya Gora. Others - how bought people went to Bolotnaya Square. But God is a judge, this storyteller. determination, ”Peskov said.

On Saturday, Putin said that he was ready to make money for the payment of a fine imposed on the organizers of the rally on the worship of the mountain for exceeding the declared number of participants. "As for the fines, even if the organizers are not worried: I am ready to contribute and partially in solidarity with them to answer the law," Putin said, answering the question of journalists how he relates to the intentions of the authorities to administratively punish the rally organizers in his support.

The organizers of the rally on Poklonnaya Gora in Moscow submitted an application for 15 thousand participants, and according to the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate, more than 138 thousand came. The Moscow City Hall intends to bring the organizers to administrative responsibility under the article "Violation of the rules for conducting rallies and pickets" and fines them.

Meanwhile, Putin himself, citing Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin, said that 190 thousand people took part in his support in his support. “Sergey Semenovich Sobyanin called me, he believes that it was 190 thousand people,” Putin said.

"As for the participation of such a number of people, of course, when something is organized by the authorities, they always talk about the administrative resource. I do not exclude that there were some elements of this resource here, but it is impossible to collect 134 or 190 thousand people on one resource," Putin said. "It is obviously obvious that people simply came to express their position, and of course, this position is associated with the support of what we are doing. It is very important for me, I already said that it is impossible to work without it," the prime minister said.

Putin apologized to the Muscovites, who had to face inconvenience because of so many people on Poklonnaya Gora. "They even had to block the avenue and limit the exit from the metro. You can only sympathize, apologize to the people for having to encounter some inconvenience due to the fact that the transport stopped working," the prime minister said.

The day before, Putin thanked the rally participants in his support, which will be held in Moscow on Saturday. “Those people who will sincerely declare their anti -Orange position will come to the worship of the mountain,” said Putin. “I am grateful to them, share these views of their views.” The rally will be held under the slogan "We have something to lose!"

In connection with frosts, Putin called on participants in the subboty mass actions "to protect himself, to be careful, to think about health and at least not take children."

On the eve of social networks, numerous evidence of the use of an administrative resource in organizing a rally on Poklonnaya Gora. Employees of state organizations publish letters with "orderlies". To participate in a rally in support of Putin is forced by deputies of the State Duma, doctors, teachers, employees of the district administrations, Russian Post, Sberbank.

The organizers of the rally on Poklonnaya Gora admitted that some participants may force to come to the action, but they consider this to be “overcurrents in the field”. In addition, the organizing committee believes that at rallies for honest elections in Bolotnaya Square and Sakharov Avenue there were also people who came by order. According to Gazeta.ru, the plot about the meeting of the organizing committee was shown on the Rain television channel.

“Someone considers it necessary to come, and someone wants the event to take place, and for this he uses some of his mechanisms and levers. Someone, for example, pays money,” one of the members of the organizing committee Dmitry Galochkin explained the situation. “Someone will come there according to the order, but someone will come to Bolotnaya Square on the order, but on another,” said another organizer of the rally, who also emphasizes in the plot that he has a “way to get through to those people who themselves decided to“ come to the worship of the mountain.

December 24, on the day of the rally on Sakharov Avenue, the ideologist of the "anti -Orange" Sergey Kurginyan gathered his supporters on the Sparrow Hills. In the rally of Kurginyan, from one to three thousand people took part. The previous rally in support of Putin and United Russia took place on the Constitution Day and was seen as a "answer to Bolotnaya." According to official information, the rally gathered 25 thousand participants, but independent sources gave a maximum rating of 5 thousand people. It turned out that participation in the rally was forced or paid.

On January 28, the rally “in defense of the man of labor” and in support of Vladimir Putin was held in Yekaterinburg. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, 15 thousand people took part in it, according to the correspondent of Ridus.ru - no more than 6,000 people. The same assessment was cited by the leader of the local branch of Parnassus Leonid Volkov. According to him, at least 15 million rubles were spent on the preparation of the rally, participants were collected by ordering. According to Volkov, mainly pensioners and the leadership of local enterprises - heads of plots and workshops participated in the rally. The protesters languidly reacted to the speakers and did not pick up the "chants".

As the New Gazeta reported , the Swamp Square Strategy, developed at the headquarters of the deputy head of the Kremlin administration Vyacheslav Volodin, relies on the detachments of volunteers from among the ideological supporters of Putin. According to the publication, the development of strategy in the Kremlin took up immediately after the New Year. In the regions, they should ensure the maximum mobilization of Putin's supporters who will gather for the final rally in Moscow on February 25, where they will announce the final design of the Putin -People's President.

The first such rally was held on January 24 in Kemerovo on the territory of the former Khimmash plant. More than 3 thousand participants enrolled in social networks for the rally, the organizers announced 5 thousand. According to the "New", people were brought by buses, outsiders were not allowed to the territory of the enterprise. Putin took part in the Kemerovo rally. According to the organizers of the rally, more than six thousand people participated in the action. “People live here who can say anything right and anyone. But it is precisely on such people that you can really rely on. Our country always, especially in difficult times, relied on a strong shoulder of the miner and metallurgist,” Putin said, speaking at the rally.

"I regularly go to the mining regions - on holidays, and on the days of tragedies, and just on working occasions. I know that very serious people live here who know life from the inside, and not just its glossy side," the head of government said. The rally participants adopted the resolution "in support of the course of the Russian government."