Vladimir Putin visited the campaign headquarters and spoke to its co-chairs And volunteers. Will lead staff from 3 co-chairs: the head of the center named after Rogachev Alexander Rumyantsev, the General Director of KAMAZ Sergey Kogogin And the head of the center "Sirius" Elena Shmeleva. Press Secretary of the headquarters will be the journalist Andrei Kondrashov.

Putin goes on elections As the independent candidate. The initiative group came to the polls, which included more than 600 people, 26 Dec voted for his nomination, And on the subsequent day, Putin himself showed to the CEC the documents for nomination.

A day later, on December 28, the Central election Commission registered a group who came to the polls, created to support self-Putin, And gave the applicant permission to open special accounts for creating the electoral Fund, which gives him an opportunity to officially launch the campaign And Collecting signatures come to the polls in his support. The collection of signatures began on January 5 And will last until January 30. The co-chairs staff

The campaign headquarters is located in Gostiny Dvor. After talking with the volunteers who are checking signatures, Putin talked separately with the three co-chairs.

"Thank you for agreeing to participate in this work, become co-chairs of the campaign. This work is not formal, It is important. And, moreover, if It becomes formal
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