Old Times

Mikhail Kasyanov, the neocons’ “Independent” favoured candidate for President of Russia, is an electoral fraud and has been disqualified accordingly. So now they will just have to back the only realistic party alternative to President Putin, namely the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

This will pose some (though not many) problems for them as old Trots in the US and in certain British circles. But for Nick Cohen, David Aaronovitch, Straight Left (or Harry’s Place, as it now calls itself) and the rest, it will be just like old times.