which is always funny because United Russia exists as it does from its origins in the turn of the century as basically a big tent "quick everyone get in here so we can be bigger than the communists and keep them from winning legislative and voting-bloc majorities" party (which the communists would have won the presidency too in the 1996 post-fall elections over Yeltsin but Yanks To The Rescue!
which is always funny because United Russia exists as it does from its origins in the turn of the century as basically a big tent "quick everyone get in here so we can be bigger than the communists and keep them from winning legislative and voting-bloc majorities" party (which the communists would have won the presidency too in the 1996 post-fall elections over Yeltsin but Yanks To The Rescue!