The rules of the "Popular's Vote" are an integral part of the Regulations on the procedure for holding the International Award "My Affectionate and Necessary Animal 2024".

The "National Hero", which is chosen by Internet users as part of the "Popular Vote", is an independent award nomination.

The winner of the audience award for the sixth season will be invited to Zelenogradsk for the award ceremony in April and will take the stage, receive honors and recognition along with other winners.

Following the results of the sixth season, 64 nominees were included in the voting ballots. There are 20 candidates from the nomination "Our Brothers", 44 participants are "Responsible for those ...".

Each of our nominees is unique and interesting in its own way. Therefore, the organizing committee of the Award encourages you to literally plunge into the history of the wonderful candidates of the sixth season, in order to choose your favorite later. Believe us, you are guaranteed a lot of positive emotions! 

We are very much counting on the correct behavior of all voting participants.

Campaigning for your favorite nominees is allowed and even encouraged. You can do this on your social networks or in the media. But we ask you to behave with dignity, we do not welcome counteragitation or other unfair ways of fighting for the title of national hero.

Every week, the organizing committee will post information about the progress and pace of voting on the Award's website. According to the results of the popular vote in each nomination, and these are "Our brothers" and "Responsible for those ..." one winner will be selected.

This means that there will be two “People's Heroes” (if by coincidence several leaders of the voting in each nomination do not receive equal support from Internet users). And we will invite everyone to the solemn ceremony of awarding the laureates of the International Award "My affectionate and necessary animal", which will be held in Zelenogradsk in April 2025.

We remind you that our professional jury will work in parallel with the "Popular Vote". The arbitrators will choose the winners not only in the two categories of the Award, but will also name the best in the “By Pen and Heart” contest for Russian-language media and bloggers.

Pay close attention to the Rules of the "Popular Vote". It describes in detail when, how and where you can cast your vote for your favorite character. 

THE RULES OF POPULAR VOTING:

The rules of the "Popular Vote" are an integral part of the Regulations on the procedure for holding the International Award "My Affectionate and Necessary Animal 2024".

The "Popular Vote" is an independent nomination for the "My Affectionate and Necessary animal" award, which is not influenced by either the organizing committee or the jury. Those who are declared in the nominations "Our brothers" and "Responsible for those ..." take part in the "Popular Vote".

The winners (People's Heroes) receive a separate award as part of the Awards.

The results of the "Popular Vote" do not affect the opinion of the jury members and cannot be the basis for reviewing the results of the jury's work. The work of the arbitrators ends before the results of the popular vote are summed up. 

The Organizing Committee does not exclude a situation when the choice of the jury and Internet users in the framework of the "Popular Vote" may fall on the same nominee. Such decisions are not subject to review.

You can cast your vote for your favorite character in both nominations ("Our Brothers", "Responsible for those ...") only on the official website of the Award.

In order to exclude vote tampering, it is allowed to vote once a day in both nominations every day during the whole period of the “Popular Vote”.

In case of detection of vote rigging (via VPN, etc.), the Organizing Committee reserves the right to remove such votes from the participant of the popular vote. And reserves the right (at its discretion) to publish the fact of fraud detection.

In accordance with the Regulations of the International Award “My Affectionate and Necessary Animal 2024”, the organizing committee of the Award has the right to disqualify nominees for violation of the Rules of “Popular Vote”.

Deadlines for the “Popular Vote”:

Voting for the “People's Hero” will be held on the official website of the “My Affectionate and Necessary Animal” award in two stages.

1. The first stage starts on January 20, 2024 and ends on February 5. According to the results of the first stage, five candidates in each nomination will be determined, who will receive the most votes. They will continue to fight for the title of "People's Hero".
2. The second stage will be held from 6 to 26 February.
3. The results of the "Popular Vote" will be published on the award's official website and on our official social media pages.

The processing of applications from applicants to win the international contest for Russian-language media “By Pen and Heart”, which is held within the framework of the “My Affectionate and Necessary Animal” award, has been completed.

All the nominees for the sixth season have been determined!

Dear friends, according to tradition, at midnight on January 15, the acceptance of applications from candidates and their associates for the International Award “My Affectionate and Necessary Animal” and the International Award for Russian-speaking bloggers and media “By Pen and Heart” ended.

The sixth season has once again confirmed that the popularity of our good project is growing from year to year, and the army of associates is expanding.

In the nomination “Our Brothers” for the International Award “My affectionate and necessary animal” 20 candidates from 11 regions of our country, as well as from three countries of the world - Portugal, Great Britain and Belarus - claim to win.

Among the applicants, the selfless and wise dogs and cats were competing with the equally selfless and wise hippopotamus, albino python and even bats.  Each of the contenders has in one way or another given us - the people a personal lesson in loyalty, devotion and selfless love.

38 noble and courageous animal rights activists from 28 regions of the Russian Federation, as well as 8 foreign nominees from Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Argentina and the Netherlands were declared in the nomination "Responsible for those ...". There are 44 candidates in total.

Through their actions, these people have brought harmony to the world around them, saving dogs, cats, horses, rare birds, turtles, orcas, whales, swans, cows, camels, cubs, wild cats, moose and deer. They all helped their younger brothers at the call of their hearts, and not for the sake of prizes and awards.

In the international contest “By Pen and Heart” among representatives of Russian-language media and bloggers writing in Russian, we have another record. Not only in terms of the number of participants, but also in terms of geography - more than 400 applications were received from 8 countries and more than 60 regions of Russia.

The latest applications are currently being processed, and detailed information will be posted on our website later.

In the very near future the list of candidates will be sent to the arbitrators, and at the very beginning of March we will announce the results of their consolidated work.

But by tradition, besides the arbitrators, you - supporters of the applicants and just supporters of our good project - can choose the winners in two categories of the “My Affectionate and Necessary Animal” Award.

The "Popular's vote" among Internet users starts on Monday, January 20. We will tell you in detail about the terms and rules of the Popular Vote very soon! Follow the news.