Dear friends! The first week of online voting is over. The election of the "People's Heroes" of the "Shaggy Oscar", just like a year ago, is taking place actively and, to our delight, without violating the rules.
In the first week, the nominees for the "My affectionate and necessary Animal" Award received a total of more than 39 thousand votes!
We would like to draw your attention to the fact that the rules of the "Popular Vote" have become stricter but fairer this year. For the second year now, the organizing committee has been observing the quota system - "one vote per day". In other words, you can vote for your favorite character in each nomination only once a day during the entire voting period. We remind you once again that you can vote for the heroes in the nominations "Our brothers" and "Responsible for those ...".
We are closely monitoring possible fraud and the information field, because we are convinced that all our heroes deserve to win, which means we categorically do not welcome counter-propaganda.
The geography of voting has expanded almost one and a half times this season, with Internet users from 53 countries taking part in the "Popular Vote" in the first week alone.
It is not surprising that the main activity is shown by representatives of those states whose representatives apply for the Prize - Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan. The smaller brothers and the candidates of the "Responsible for those..." nomination are also supported by users from Turkey, Germany, the USA, England and the Netherlands.
So, we name the top five leaders of the first week of the "Popular Vote" in 2025. Please note that we publish the list of nominees in the order of application numbers, not in the order of leadership!
In the "Our Brothers" nomination, the favorites among Internet users were the mongrel Pobeda from Samara, the canister therapist dog Rona from Kaliningrad, the Kamchatka shepherd Irbis, the service dog Zair from Ussuriysk and the service cat Tolik from Moscow.
However, fans of candidates who did not make it into the top five of the midterm results should not despair. At the moment, the gap between fifth place and eleventh is only 77 votes.
In the "Responsible for those..." nomination, the top five included schoolgirl Varvara Guznaeva from the Lipetsk region, rescuers from the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Veliky Novgorod, Alyona Kravtsova from Rostov-on-Don, a team of residents of Kamchatka, volunteers, rescuers from the Ministry of Emergency Situations and GIMS, as well as the shelter "Koshkin Dom" from Donetsk.
There is also a high density of stasis among the seventeen applicants. Therefore, the composition of the top five can change at any time.
Once again, we would like to remind all voting participants and applicants: in our project, of course, there will be winners, but there were not and will never be any losers! All candidates, without exception, have committed, and many continue to commit respectable acts.
Next Monday, February 3, we will summarize the next interim results of the "Popular Vote". And on February 5, 2025, the first round will be completed.
The second stage of the "Popular Vote" starts on February 6. On this day, we will announce the names of the five finalists in each nomination. Voting will end on February 26. It is based on the results of the second round of voting that the winners in the "People's Hero" nomination will be named.
Both selected winners of the “People's Vote” will be invited to the award ceremony of the International Award “My Affectionate and Necessary Animal”, which will be held in Zelenogradsk in April.
The Organizing Committee once again thanks all the supporters of the kindest award in the world, all those who take part in the "People's Vote" for their activity, and, of course, for their honesty and correctness. Remember, the main thing of our Award is that we have winners, but there are no losers. Let's follow it!