The prime minister, who is running for president, also asked his trusted representatives not to make voters promises they cannot keep and “not turn into empty promisers.” http://echo.msk.ru/news/856605-echo.html That was well said. It came just in time for the announcement of the winner of the video contest on the theme “Obeshchalkin and Housing and Utilities”. Hooray. First prize, the people’s love, and 25,000 rubles goes to the creator of this video:

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http://youtu.be/C-_FMJNyWFc Congratulations to the winner. And I ask everyone who does not want another 12 years of Obeshchalkin’s promises to help spread the video by every possible means. Blogs, social media, email, and so on. When we do not slack off on campaign work, hundreds of thousands of views come very quickly. A reminder: the video was made based on this post. Let’s continue our cheerful campaign experiments. “Obeshchalkin and Corruption” — that’s the theme of the new contest. We need a killer video to spread online, based on this hit blog post. The winner will receive 35,000 Russian rubles. I’m putting up the money myself, since this is a subject close to me. To take part in the contest, you need to make a video, upload it to YouTube, and immediately send the link to obeshalkin at gmail.com. After you send the link, you can share and post your video wherever you like. Entries will be accepted for one week, until 11:59 p.m. on February 14, 2012.

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