Russian riot police detain Kremlin opponents in Nizhny Novgorod. Photograph: Anton Belousov/AFP
It looks like the full array of political black arts will be swung into action over the coming months in order to stamp out any semblance of resistance to the two Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee parties supporting President Vladimir Putin: United Russia and Fair Russia.
The tiny opposition Republican party was ceremoniously crushed last week and the courts are now hunting down the National Bolsheviks, a group of radicals who are jointly responsible for the series of recent "dissenters' marches" that have rattled the Kremlin.
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