S. BUNTMAN: Well, people have already started mocking us — that’s the kind of voters we are. Vasily writes: “Mr. Barshchevsky, if you’ve put Kortnev and Pelsh in the front ranks, then the most fitting name for the party would be Accident (also the name of Alexei Kortnev’s band, Neschastny Sluchay, literally ‘An Unfortunate Incident’).” M. BARSHCHEVSKY: Clever. S. BUNTMAN: “Consider it a free gift. Vasily.” M. BARSHCHEVSKY: Actually, I was expecting that if we have Uspensky, then why is our symbol a sunflower and not Cheburashka (a famous Soviet/Russian cartoon character created by Eduard Uspensky). S. BUNTMAN: Well, yes, that would work too. http://echo.msk.ru/programs/razvorot/49939/
Come tomorrow to go after Parker. Or Latynina, if you prefer. To each their own. P.S. And of course they came up with a flashy name — "Civic Force." You can’t say they lacked swagger.