"Substantial time has now passed since Russia's State Duma elections - not so much as to forget, but enough to think things over more objectively. The perfectly predictable drop in popularity of the "party of power" - United Russia - was as completely unexpected for the Kremlin as December snow always seems to be for Moscow street sweepers.
The authorities were baffled, something evidenced not only by Vladimir Putin's arbitrary accusation that US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Senator John McCain were involved in the organisation of protests and demonstrations in Moscow, but also his awkward jokes in addressing those same protesters, when he compared the white ribbons they had pinned onto their lapels to condoms."
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