33 candidates are vying for the presidency

Putin’s confidants

Putin will have 346 proxies. The list included creative figures – Sergei Bezrukov, Vladimir Mashkov, Polina Gagarina and Larisa Dolina, Ekaterina Guseva, Shaman (Yaroslav Dronov), director of the Evgeni Vakhtangov State Academic Theater Kirill Krok, Andrei Merzlikin, Nikita Mikhalkov, artistic director of the orchestra ” New Russia” Yuri Bashmet, jazzman Igor Butman, dancers Sergei Polunin and Nikolai Tsiskaridze, Nikolai Rastorguev, singer Olga Chirkova, director Karen Shakhnazarov. As in the two previous presidential campaigns, the first deputy head of the United Russia executive committee, deputy Natalya Orlova, and member of the Association of Chairmen of Councils of Apartment Buildings of the Moscow Region Elena Nosenko will be in charge of finances.