why all these 'straw-men' are supported by the west then? stop being pro-American russophobe,write down actual laws you wanna pass and Russian people will vote for you, there's plenty of other small parties with patriotic leaders who are pro-Putin who don't even get the media coverage Navalny and Sobchyak gets, like Starikov, he's actualy someone to be considered to become a leader of a huge party and an actual opposition of United Russia,I would even replace Medvedev with Starikov, why Putin isn't supporting these people? why only liberals get to go to elections while actual pro-Russian parties can't? United Russia are liberals by their policies, if not Putin, they would have pushed plenty more shity laws,otherwise all United Russia does is push out opposite law of Putin's then cancel it and push out Putin's law, Communist party isn't that communist,democratic liberals with Zhyrik aren't good either, they have no idea how to build strong economy, ones do nothing,others privatize everything. While there are plenty of conservative parties who know how to build the economy.