They say that even Anatoly Wasserman will go to the State Duma with the support of the authorities. If such reserves are abandoned in battle, does the Kremlin really feel bad?

The former mayor of Yakutsk Sardan Avksentiev and founder of the Anderson cafe Anastasia Tatulov can be nominated by candidates for deputies in the State Duma election, Vedomosti write. According to the source of the publication close to the presidential administration, they can go from the New People party, the founder of the cosmetic company Faberlic, Alexei Nechaev.

Tatulova herself on the air "Business FM" refuted this. She said that she did not have time to engage in political activities, although “new people” are close in spirit. The press secretary of Avksentieva also stated that she was not going to run for the Duma.

The ratings of "United Russia" are falling, according to surveys of sociologists. At the end of November, only 29% of Russians were ready to vote for the party. Politician Alexei Navalny and his supporters want to use a “smart vote” in the election and call people to vote for their chosen candidates instead of unicorn.

The Kremlin intends to deal with this strategy. On February 20, the leading Saturday episode of the podcast “What happened” by Konstantin Gaaz and Andrei Pertsev already discussed potential candidates for deputies who could go to parliament in September this year. According to them, the authorities are interested in the fact that famous TV presenters go to the Duma. Among them was the editor -in -chief of RT Margarita Simonyan, although she herself called this information “nonsense”. TV presenter Anatoly Wasserman also declared his intention to go to the State Duma. He already has political experience - in 1994 he, a native of Odessa, ran for the elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

In the new episode of the podcast “What happened”, we are discussing the elections to the State Duma with Andrei Kolesnikov, a political scientist, the head of the Russian Internal Policy and Political Institutes of the Moscow Center of Carnegie.

• Does it make sense to talk about elections in modern Russia at all if their results are easy to falsify?
• Is there a chance for an unsystematic opposition (including thanks to a “smart vote”) to take independent politicians to the parliament?
• Should we wait for street protests after voting?

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In this episode we advise another podcast "Medusa" - "Rosental and Guildensterns" about the Russian language. The guest of the last issue was journalist Leonid Parfyonov . The presenters discuss with him the Vologda dialect, changes in the language and what oximiron is cooler than the announcer of the Soviet radio.

Presenter - Vladislav Gorin

Editor - Natalia Kondrashova

Installation - Dmitry Bodrov

Music - Victor Davydov