"Seliger" chooses a budget option

The needs of Seliger amounted to 280 million rubles. In previous years, part of the expenses covered the contributions of sponsors, including Mercedes-Benz, Consultant Plus, Panasonic and other companies. This year, the forum director Alexei Volokhov said that "sponsors refused to allocate money for Seliger and limited themselves to providing their products."

Mercedes-Benz so explained its decision not to take part in the forum, taken back in 2011:

- We did not support Seliger, but only the Zvorykin project. We helped him - gave our cars. We believed that this project develops and stimulates youth creativity. But last year we refused to support him, deciding to focus on other children's and youth organizations, ”said Andrei Rodionov, head of the corporate communication department.

This year, among those who refused to participate in the forum were companies such as “Consultant Plus”, Ernst & Young, the International Education Center for the English language Education First EF, Mizuno sportswear and shoes.

- For us, Seliger is not a very interesting project. Last year, we practically did not sponsor it. We only watched, sorted out whether it was worth spending resources on it in the future. Then they came to the conclusion that the forum participants are not our target audience, that the project is not ours, but it is not possible to sponsor everything in the world. In addition, instead of the Informpot section, where we wanted to participate, we were recorded in "all houses". Without Seliger, we will find a way to introduce young people to our program, ”said Margarita Koroleva , head of the Department of Non -Profit Projects at Consultant Plus, in an interview with RS.

The representative of Tefal described the position of this organization:

- We first participate in Seliger. When negotiations on cooperation were just beginning, there was no question of the monetary part. We were not offered to support the forum financially, we were asked only for household appliances and dishes. Perhaps if we were asked for monetary support, we would not refuse, ”said Tatyana Karachevskaya public relations manager.

Companies such as Panasonic, LG Electronic, Workle Internet companies and Planet Fitness could not answer the question why they refused to provide material assistance to Seliger.

Recall that the Seliger youth forum has been held since 2005. Initially, he collected only activists of the “ours” movement, which was headed by Vasily Yakemenko . In recent years, activists of the "young", "local" and other youth organizations began to be invited to the camp. In 2012, a shift was organized by blogger Dmitry Ternovsky, who is going to invite the opposition for the first time. They expect the speech of the leader of the "Left Front" by Sergey Udaltsov.