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: "Stars" on trust
Putin's proxies included more than two hundred popular media characters. This “Team from TV” candidate Putin is unlikely to be needed so much: he would have won already. On the contrary, the authorized persons of the “people's candidate” are obtained by some “anti -people” - all the millionaires, even Forbes writes about them.
Almost five hundred people became the "entrusted persons" of the presidential candidate Vladimir Putin. Today, the Central Election Commission approved the list of “persons”, the number 499. The composition of proxies is impressive-here are artists, culture, show business, mass media, entrepreneurs, athletes, even scientists. Persons are mostly known and, some of the population, respected. Others are less known, but still flashed on the television screen more than once.
Andrei Arshavin (and several more Arshavin’s colleagues in the Russian national football team) and Nikolai Rastorguev, Nikita Mikhalkov and Evgeny Plushenko, Leonid Yakubovich and Mikhail Boyarsky, Elena Isinbaeva and Mintimer Shaimiev, Mikhail Pedatorsky and Valentin Yudashkin, Stas Mikhailov and Viktor Sadovnichy, Zapashny brothers and Nadezhda Babkin, this All Putin's “proxies”, who are even to certify separately (there - “actor”, “football player”, “TV presenter”) is not required. The names of other proxies can, for the sake of sakes, provide explanations. Say, “Provistent Political Studies” Dmitry Orlov or the chief of “arguments and facts” Nikolai Zyatkov.
Again, in public space, the question "with whom are you, masters of culture?" Some “masters”, respectively, campaigned for Putin, others - against Putin at rallies “For honest elections”. Putinsky in the sense of solid degrees and mass fame seems to be more significant, but they also have “anti -rating” higher - to take the same Nikita Mikhalkov.
However, there is another feature of the political technological plan. Putin’s proxies became, first of all, “people from the TV”, and Vladimir Putin led the campaign and will lead as a “real people's candidate”.
Perhaps there is no direct contradiction: if Putin is loved - as representatives of the authorities believe - millions, then he should be “popular favorites”. And it is not easy to find such in the office of ministers and the State Duma, even taking into account the landing of athletes and showmen in parliament. And certainly the task of turning Igor Sechin with Vyacheslav Volodin into idols of millions, if at all, then not in a couple of months of the election campaign.
Of course, the bet on “proxies from the TV” does not mean that Putin’s team doubts the forces of its candidate. In the end, among the proxies of Vladimir Putin in 2004 there were also many famous people - Mikhail Boyarsky, Leonid Roshal, Valery Gergiev and many others (then some large businessmen became “trusted”). So we are talking about some tradition according to which the authorities from the authorities must drag the maximum possible number of media persons into the list of his proxies. At the exit again and again it turns out “the tour of the stars of the Russian pop“ Vote or lose! ”, As in the memorable 1996.
And although the candidate is non -alternative (unlike 1996 or, say, elections in the United States), and most likely there will be no electoral significance, there will be no emphasis on the fame of the Putin sympathizers.
The balance, however, is preserved and in the list of proxies is full of all kinds of representatives of trade unions (led by the most important professional Boss Mikhail Shmakov) and other “labor collectives”. And the various “social activists”, such as the lawyer Kucheren and the head of the “Russian Union of rural youth” Olga Platoshina (she was remembered, say, with the performance “at the warm -up” before the first persons at the September Congress of the EP, when she stated that “the safety of our children in the hands of Vladimir Putin”).
It seems that the candidate is responsible and even confronts “full with marsh” - all the power propaganda advocates for maintaining stability and against revolutions. And in the list of proxies of the candidate himself, even not even “well -fed”, but out of place, by the standards of an average citizen, are rich people. Dollar millionaires, at whom you are not. Stas Mikhailov alone earned, according to Forbes, $ 20 million in 2010. Andrei Arshavin is more modest, but also 8 million. The Zapashny brothers - 4.4 million for a couple, goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev - 3.8, Valery Gergiev - 3.2, Roman Pavlyuchenko - 2.9, Evgeny Plushenko - 1.4, Fedor Bondarchuk - a million “anti -people dollars”.
But for the trusted man, the desire to get to the list is understandable. Here is the mention in the media, and an excess reason to ask officials of some kind of profit, and potential orders for performances and other corporate parties. Anyway: once again to indicate that “masters of culture” - they know their entire bosses and fully - is never harmful to anyone.