Uma ward

St. Petersburg activists Valery Fedotov and Alexander Kholodov, promoted online, are losing the election race to pro-Kremlin activists. Rivals are fighting for seats in the Public Chamber of Russia.

Members of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation are replaced every three years. 40 citizens are approved by the President of the Russian Federation, 83 people are representatives of regional public chambers, and another 43 are active social activists.

The last group this year is chosen through online voting, which started on May 1 and ends on May 30. Among those who applied were 267 people. All of them are divided into 14 different groups according to areas of activity (economics, ecology, informatization, etc.). It is planned that three people will be elected from each group, the 43rd on the list will be the one who takes 4th place and gets the most votes among similar places in other groups. To vote, voters must register on the government services website .

Opposition candidates talk about cheating - the results are suddenly reset, completely incomprehensible people rise to the top. Others also managed to create scandals in connection with the stationary voting point, which is located in the very building of the Public Chamber. There, voters can register and then vote for their favorite. Oppositionists suspected the polling station staff of persistent proposals to vote for a specific candidate.

Promoted middle peasants

Alexander Kholodov, a member of Putin's Popular Front and the coordinating council of the interregional organization of motorists "Freedom of Choice", promoted online, and ex-United Russia member, now an activist of Prokhorov's "Civic Platform" Valery Fedotov, are still walking to the seat of a member of the chamber neither shaky nor shaky.

A member of the public council of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, Kholodov is running in the group “Development of public control (anti-corruption, control over the activities of state power and local self-government, etc.). He so far has only 379 votes. And this, he admits, is not enough.

Fedotov, who once left the St. Petersburg United Russia with a scandal, also has few votes, despite the support of the white-ribbon crowd of the northern capital - 654.

Fedotov talks about massive fraud and draws attention to the leadership in the rating of pro-Kremlin activists.

Putin's outsiders

However, Kholodov and Fedotov cannot in any way be classified as outsiders - so far only 18 people have voted for United Russia member, member of the Union of Artists of Russia Sergei Kobzev from the St. Petersburg Public Fund for the Support and Development of the Penitentiary System (he is in the curia "charity, volunteering and volunteerism" , civic education and patriotic education").

On the website of the annual city forum “Social Petersburg”, among the areas of activity of the organization from which Kobzev is delegated, design, aesthetics, ergonomics, psychology, adaptation are indicated, and the mission is education and patriotism.

Voters should probably evaluate how aesthetically pleasing the Russian penal system is.

Vladimir Putin fan Vladimir Verkhov, delegated to the OP from the Green Cross (the organization itself does not have the most impeccable reputation among local environmentalists), was supported by 43 voters. Verkhovykh wants to engage in “health protection, popularization of a healthy lifestyle, ecology and environmental protection.”

The candidate boasts that, at his instigation, on Primorsky Prospekt “by renovating the sites with the planting of large-sized trees, the first public square was founded, created in honor of the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin.” The candidate indicates that he is the author of the idea “to scare away builders from children’s playgrounds, sports grounds and green spaces.” Another initiative of the Verkhovs is called “In the Name of Labrador!” and provides for the “collection of old unnecessary keys from the population for the purpose of casting from them the sculptural group “Labrador Horses and 8 Puppies” as a talisman for gardens and parks, children’s and sports grounds with its installation in the first public park “Vladimir Putin’s Garden.”

More votes than Kobzev and Verkhov were collected by reserve colonel from the NGO "Union of Funeral Organizations and Crematoria" Pavel Kodysh.

The candidate has 193 votes so far, and in the Public Chamber he plans to deal with “the service sector and the consumer market.” Funeral services, as we know, are always in demand, so it is not entirely clear what Kodysh is so eager to improve.

Traditionally, either current members of the Public Chamber or those who were directly related to it get good votes. For example, the President of the Federal Chamber of Lawyers of the Russian Federation, member of the OP Evgeny Semenyako has already received 4,767 votes.

Twisted trade unionists

Following a little behind him is the head of the Public Council under the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg, a member of the public council under the FSB, a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation from 2006 to 2010, Alexander Afonichev - he has 4138 votes. He was nominated to the ward by the Guild of Prosthetists and Orthopedists.

Despite the fact that since 2004 Afonichev has held the honorary position of adviser to the president of the organization, the guild itself found it difficult to clarify who the candidate of the chamber of the new convocation was. If you believe the information published on the chamber’s website, Afonichev intends to develop the real sector of the economy.

The website of the public council under the FSB of Russia states: in addition to the Institute of Physical Culture named after. Lesgaft, Afonichev graduated with honors from New York University with a degree in financial analysis. But for some reason this information is missing on the page of the candidate for the new convocation of the OP. Either the candidate is embarrassed, or he has refused the diploma.

Semenyako is being chased by another St. Petersburg resident, the responsible section of the Central Council of the Association of Trade Unions of Russia SOTSPROF Igor Malkin, who received 2,171 votes. By the way, on the Internet you can find advertisements http://zismo.biz/forum/56-475496-1 from vote buyers who are willing to pay five rubles per vote cast for specific candidates. In addition to Malkin, it is proposed to support candidates Vladimir Slepak, Irina Andreeva and Alexander Chislov. To receive the earned nickel, the voter needs to send the buyer a screenshot confirming the “correct” vote cast. One can, of course, assume that the candidates were victims of cruel provocation, but here’s a strange coincidence: recently thousands of voters have cast their votes for the magnificent four.

People's aircraft carriers

Malkin is known for supporting the construction of "people's aircraft carriers." For example, in January last year, SOCPROF addressed an open letter to Vladimir Putin, assuring that “... it is difficult to imagine a significant strengthening of Russia in the international arena without strengthening our country’s position in the World Ocean, an important tool of which is the formation of aircraft carrier formations as a “long arm” "states".

That is why it is necessary to “establish a public fund “People's Aircraft Carrier”, where, under constant public control, including via the Internet, funds will be accumulated and targeted for the design and construction of aircraft-carrying cruisers, air wings, escort ships, training of specialists, propaganda of Russia as Great Sea Power."

The letter also states that it is necessary to “give everyone the opportunity to feel involved in the great cause of the revival of Russia and its power in the World Ocean... the creation of aircraft carrier formations will be a manifestation of true patriotism, love for the Motherland, the desire to be useful to it, one of the spiritual bonds of mutual support and mutual assistance."

Moscow St. Petersburgers

The well-known Moscow human rights activist, member of the current chamber, head of the organization "Children's Right" Boris Altshuler was nominated by the St. Petersburg Association of Public Associations of Parents of Disabled Children "GAOORDI".

4895 votes were cast for him. He owes his success to the informal leader of the Russian opposition, Alexei Navalny. Through his resources, the blogger called on supporters to support several candidates, including Altshuler.

Another Muscovite Yabloko activist, Anatoly Rabinovich, was nominated by the St. Petersburg charitable foundation Parents' Bridge. So far he has only 19 votes.