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Elections of the President of the Russian Federation - from coronation to farce

Unlike world news, Russian news breathes peace and tranquility: " Gordon said she would take Putin's advice if she became president." So, the coming of President Ekaterina Gordon does not promise us shocks, President Gordon will take into account the experience of his predecessors, there is no reason for concern. True, it is not yet clear whether President Anfisa Chekhov will take advantage of Putin's advice, but we will hope for the best.

Having been nominated for the presidency, Ksenia Sobchak (here I want to write “opened a portal to hell”, but no) seemed to lift the curtain, and show business figures, realizing that the political scene is also a scene, rushed to this new stage. Anfisa Chekhova, the former host of the Sex with Anfisa Chekhova program on TNT, is waiting for two hundred thousand “likes” under an Instagram post, and if she gets it, she promises to join the election race. Chekhova, by the way, is not a self-nominated candidate, she is a candidate from the "Party of Good Deeds, Protection of Children, Women, Freedom, Nature and Pensioners." There is such a party, and, unlike many others, it is a registered party. Ekaterina Gordon guarantees the continuity of the course. Elena Semerikova, an academician of the International Academy of Spiritual Unity of the Peoples of the World (oh, don’t ask), vice-president of the Masks Foundation for Assistance to Theater and Television and leader of the Women’s Dialogue party, also registered, is eager to fight. Actor Alexei Panin, a favorite of cynologists, was wandering around the capital, a naked maiden accompanied him, the maiden covered her charms with a poster “Panin is with us”, and this was also an application for participation in the presidential elections, but, unfortunately, as a result, the actor refused.

Let Nadezhda Babkina and Nadezhda Kadysheva better join in (oh, that would be a felling, a second round in the format of a round dance, agitation squatting, debates of spoons). Let Grigory Leps go to Stas Mikhailov

While the intellectuals were arguing whether Sobchak was a strikebreaker or not, whether she was connected with the presidential administration, and whether it was worth supporting her simply so that the authorities saw how many people of liberal views were in the country long ago and, apparently, were not impressed), the figures of show business felt quite right: the inscription “farce” clearly appeared on the ballot box. And they are professionals, this is their business, their bread, and one must think that the queue of singers and TV presenters who wished to declare themselves presidential candidates will only grow in the near future. And so you are almost sincerely surprised when you find out that the news “Elena Letuchaya is changing her job” is not about another presidential candidate, but about the transition of a journalist from channel to channel. And you admire the sanity of the Irkutsk governor Sergei Levchenko, who managed to declare that he would not participate in the 2018 presidential election. Indeed, the governor, even in modern Russia, is some kind of politician, but all the same, these elections are clearly not a matter for politicians. Let Nadezhda Babkina and Nadezhda Kadysheva better join in (oh, that would be a felling, a second round in the format of a round dance, agitation squatting, debates of spoons). Let Grigory Leps go to Stas Mikhailov. And it's a pity, of course, that the YouTube stars didn't age.

And, of course, the figures of show business for this activity should not be scolded, but thanked. They create the right background. They set the only possible variant of attitude towards the so-called elections. Now only a blind (or very motivated) person can ignore this very “farce” inscription. And only a very stupid person will not realize that the letter “R” is missing in the abbreviation CEC.

But Ksenia Sobchak deservedly remains the main heroine of the elections. It is now fashionable to scold her, but we will praise her. It doesn’t matter whether she herself suddenly felt an impulse to go out and save her homeland, or Uncle Vova asked. It is important what Uncle Vova's coronation is now turning into. And, by the way, for a long time, consistently, diligently, completely different people turned elections into a circus. The dull leaders of the systemic parties, coupled with the same dull servants, did much more for this than Ksenia Sobchak. But through her efforts, the tedious farce seems to be becoming cheerful. Now at least there is something to see. Take, for example, the same Anfisa Chekhova ... Whichever way you turn, Anfisa Chekhova is much nicer than Gennady Zyuganov or Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

By the way, it's not too late to go and put a "like" under candidate Anfisa's post . Let's support, let him run.