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February 1st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
By contrast, three of the other presidential contenders have provided only
token or at best feeble opposition to the Kremlin for years.
Polls show that 59-year-old Mr Putin, who remains popular in the provinces,
will easily win the presidency next month regardless even though he may be
forced into a run-off.
Keen to play down the widely-held impression that his victory is a foregone
conclusion, Mr Putin conceded on Wednesday that he may be forced into a
second round run-off if he fails to secure less than 50 per cent of the vote
outright.
“A run-off would unavoidably be linked to the continuation of a struggle
and the destabilisation of the political situation,” he said.
“I am ready for that, to work in the second round, if need be.”
President from 2000-2008 and prime minister for the last four years, he is
facing an unprecedented challenge to his dominance after tens of thousands
of people took to the streets in recent months to protest against an
allegedly rigged parliamentary election in December.
The protests were the largest of their kind since the 1991 fall of the Soviet
Union and appear to have taken the guardians of the Kremlin’s peculiar brand
of ‘managed democracy’ by surprise.
But the protesters’ central demand for a fresh parliamentary election has been
rejected out of hand by the Kremlin, the movement so far lacks a clear
leader, and there is growing unease in its own ranks about joining forces
with the far left and far right. Opposition activists pulled off a cheeky
stunt on Wednesday, briefly erecting a giant banner on a rooftop opposite
the Kremlin urging Mr Putin to leave politics. The opposition is hoping to
stage what will be its third big protest in Moscow on Saturday. But with the
mercury hovering around -6F (-21C) and with far fewer promised attendees
than previous events, its chances of maintaining or even advancing the
anti-Kremlin opposition movement’s considerable momentum appear uncertain.
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