Basically what Putin now has is a constitutional majority -- meaning: Duma = Supreme Soviet.
Chris Doss <itschris13 at hotmail.com> wrote: Hi Peter,
I must say I am hardly saddened by SPS' getting whupped. They have only themselves to blame. Too bad about Yabloko. This is going to be a very conservative, leftist Duma.
The LDPR to my knowledge makes a lot of bluster but usually turns around at the last minute and votes with the Kremlin, right? So this would give the Kremlin direct or indirect control over at leats half the Duma, correct?
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