There is no expiry date, no list of approved retailers, no restrictions on transferring it.

ECONOMIST: Bribes and fines in fake money won't work

Putin's allies - many of them rich businessmen, colleagues from when he worked as a city adviser in St Petersburg and fellow KGB veterans - have given no hint of transferring their support to anyone else and the opposition remains divided.

MSN: At nearly 60, is Russia's Putin losing his macho image?

For all its innovative sexiness, there was no flash, no zoom, and transferring pictures to your computer was slower than installing Windows.

FORBES: Churn my camera