Then there's Sergei Mironov of Just Russia who is pro-Putin and predicts a Putin victory.
At another square in Moscow, Communist, A Just Russia, and the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party will all meet with their respective candidates to protest Putin.
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Liberal Democrats and A Just Russia have under 55 seats each.
In the video, which surprised some Chechens, he said the enemy of Chechen rebels wasn't just Russia but "all those who wage war against Muslims, " including the U.S., Britain and Israel.
United Russia lost over 70 seats in the parliamentary elections held Dec. 4, with the Communist Party picking up most of them, followed by the Liberal Democrats and A Just Russia.
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The walkout by A Just Russia came after Mr Putin said Oleg Shein, the party's mayoral candidate in the city of Astrakhan, should have gone to court instead of launching a hunger strike.
Unable to channel their protest into genuine opposition, people showed their frustration with United Russia by voting for the Communists, Just Russia, the misnamed Liberal Democratic Party or the old liberal party Yabloko, which was not allowed into parliament.
But its real purpose, it seems, is to act as a spoiler for the Communist Party and another party, Just Russia, which itself was originally created as a double for United Russia but has since become a genuine challenger.
Professor Celeste Wallander (Russian and East European Studies, Georgetown University, Washington): Putin has been very good at casting the United States as being kind of a, you know, a rogue state in its behavior and threatening to all the countries of Europe, not just Russia, but other countries of Europe.
The European Union is pressuring Russia to apply EU rules to the European operations of gas giant Gazprom, just as Russia is struggling to maintain its dominance of Europe's gas market.
The Olympic Games aren't just for sports superpowers, not just for Russia and China and the USA, USA!
On missile defense, the United States must move forward, just as Russia does when its vital interests are at stake.
He was just in Russia where there were that big celebration, the Red Square parade commemorating the victory of Nazi--over Nazi Germany 60 years ago.
One of Mr Yeltsin's final bursts of political energy came in March 1998, when just as Russia's economic prospects were turning sour he abruptly dismissed the entire cabinet.
That language skill still comes in handy, and not just because Russia is suspected of having carried out cyber assaults against Estonia in 2007 and Georgia in 2008.
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Just as Russia is using the threat of further financial collapse to press for more cash from the West, so it is urging the West to back down in the Balkans or risk a much bigger military confrontation.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joseph Biden, D-Delaware, admonished the White House on the Senate floor Wednesday, saying the move would cause an arms buildup not just in Russia but also in Pakistan and India, increasing tensions in southern Asia.
That may look like a low-risk option, but in reality it means Russia just goes on rotting.
If Mr Yurkov comes clean about his office's statistical methodology, Russia just might look a bit less gloomy.
Just look to Russia and China where the number of vistors grew an astounding 50% year-over-year.
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Russia just moved from the bottom of the list to 71st of 102.
It is not reasonable to expect Russia just to put things back the way they were prior to August 7th.
Are there any other issues where we should be governed by perceptions and sentiment, or is it just relations with Russia?
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Other South Africans have already been brought in to fly and maintain the new fighter aircraft that the government has just purchased from Russia.
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This latest meteor over Russia just goes to show how important such work is and how crucial it is that we keep our eye on the sky.
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"Pekhtin and others in United Russia just paid for their double standards, they dug themselves into this hole, " said a posting from a Twitter account in the name of legislator Dmitry Gudkov.
It has metamorphosed from a primarily nationalist, secular revolt into one driven by militant Islamists, whose goal is not just freedom from Russia but the creation of a sharia-governed "emirate" encompassing the entire region.
Note each foreign central bank such as China, India and Russia just to name 3 of the BRIC aristos, who continue to amass gold as a currency reserve instead of the dollar or the euro.
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