Russian liberals hoped for an anti-Putin street revolution. They now may be realising that they wasted years on a doomed strategy -- RT Russia & Former Soviet Union

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : The liberal nonconformists will have to accept nationalism, imperialism, centralised power and social-democracy in the place of cosmopolitanism, devolution and neoliberalism.
53% : In another Marxist-Leninist hangover, Pastukhov thus offers us a dialectical process: Russia will pass from the thesis of communism, through the antithesis of Yeltsinism/Putinism, to a new synthesis, which Pastukhov doesn't define but might be a kind of "illiberal democracy" or maybe "liberal conservatism," but certainly won't be Western-style liberal democracy.

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