Yes that is also true. The KPRF makes a lot of populist noise, but it's actual program looks a hell of a lot like Putin's. Also, they completely discredited themselves by having Yukos people on their party list. That allowed the Kremlin to say "the self-styled anti-oligarch party is eating out of Khodorkovsky's hand; we, on the other hand, put Khodorkovsky in jail."
--- Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote: The other thing too is that they haven't been offering any real alternative to Putin and his policies. We saw what happened in this country in the 2002 midterm elections when the Democrats didn't even make a pretension of offering an alternative to Bush's policies. The Russian CP might be the Party of Implacable Opposition but they are also very much the Loyal Opposition and that they doesn't play very well when you fail to offer any real alternative to the politicians in power.
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