Some Sunday Morning Reading
An information lead to an apparently objective source discussing the currently admixed political nature of Russia (it sounds very much like the case of the US)
Be sure to take a look at the website of Karine Bechet-Golovko, the interviewee, and note the translation utility in the upper left side of her blog column (she, although Russian, writes in French). Address of her website is http://russiepolitics.blogspot.com/.