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For people never make mistakes in transporting poisonous substances, or commit suicide in order to attract attention to themselves.

Talk about begging the question. By this logic, I can blame Litvinenko’s death on Berezovsky, MI6, Washington, or the Mossad. Or Sean. Or my grandma.

Yes, it was my grandma. She had much to gain.

This is an excuse but not the reason for the failure.

ivanov, sorry but I don’t agree. Here are the details of the requirements for candidates from parties not represented in the Duma:

* Other legally registered parties may nominate candidates by collecting 2 million signatures from an electorate of approximately 100 million. No more than seven percent of these signatures can be from any one of the 89 regions of the Federation. The credentials of the party, the candidate and the validity of the signatures are all subject to confirmation by the Central Electoral Commission.

* A candidate who wants to stand as an independent must register a Supporters’ Group with the Central Electoral Commission within 20 days of the formal announcement of the election and then, after the Central Electoral Commission has approved the Supporters’ Group and confirmed the eligibility of the candidate, secure 2 million signatures on a nomination petition and have his or her candidacy confirmed by the Central Electoral Commission.

PS. Sorry for “sport asses” but I couldn’t stop laughing when hear Sport Vehicles when see F-350 TRUCK that moves one ass from point A to point B.

Fair enough – the SUV infatuation among people who for whom off-road driving is the gravel parking lot at their kids’ soccer game is indeed a bit absurd. Strictly speaking, though, I think the F-350 is not considered an SUV, but rather a pickup truck.

ivanov, I’m going to throw my guess into the mix – are you perhaps one of the many Russians who has relocated to “foggy Albion”?

Cyrill, my impression was that the revisionist history project is full steam ahead, in spite of the scandal it caused over the summer.

Once again, I would like to point to a strange idiosyncrasy in “analyzing” Russia. It is hardly a paragon of efficiency and performance on any level of management and production. However, there are two entities that somehow are miraculously exempt from the general plague of incompetence or at least mismanagement: “The KGB/FSB” and “The Kremlin” – whatever that means. These two supposedly work with demonic precision and SNAFU is not in their vocabulary. They never make mistakes or botch assassinations in London. They concoct devious plans and flawlessly take them to fruition.

Someone has already mentioned Hanlon’s Razor – never ascribe to malice what can easily be explained by stupidity or incompetence.

If there is a black list, it will unlikely be ideologically based – kill all liberals – it will be a payback or a contract and it will not be centralized: every little administrator will have one. We had something just like that at the radio station I have a show on. A local Sheriff (dumb move) got tired of one of the hosts constantly badmouthing him, so he tried to threaten the station with repercussions if it keeps the guy on the air. Well, the end result of the First Amendment law suit was sheriff’s resignation and a cash settlement with the county.

What I saw with Soloviev’s TV shows on NTV – he has no problems inviting SPS people including Yavlinsky or Kasparov – who are their own enemies.

And let’s not forget that leaders that limit their population’ access to information and analysis are no different from them and end up having a very limited perspective. For all intends and purposes even if these black lists exist, they are not devilish plans to remove liberals, and install tyranny. They exist to protect the country they are designed for the betterment of the country. Naturally this is a result of incompetence rather then a grand design – and the circle is now complete.