What is this world coming to?

It's a damn shame when a young oligarch has to roll up his pants and wade into the sty; can't he hire some puppets to take care of political business for him? Chris Dodd is available; so is Tom Daschle, Bill Clinton, and Tony Blair (highly available, in fact). Their Russian is not so good but they are flexible men of pragmatic outlook who could find a way forward.

Russia's never going to become a real republic without stooges and front men, is it? Somebody tell Prokhorov.