Sergei Mitrokhin, deputy chairman of Yabloko, commented on Reznik’s nomination as follows: "He has no chance whatsoever... What’s more, I believe he was paid a large sum of money (for example, by the disgraced oligarch Nevzlin, who finances The Other Russia) to merge Yabloko with The Other Russia and hand our party over to Limonov, Kasparov, and others... I call this a hostile takeover! But we will not give them our party! And Reznik should stop playing the part of Moska barking at the elephant!" (a reference to a fable by Ivan Krylov) The elephant, however, is clearly limping on all four legs, and experts are predicting the imminent collapse of the country’s oldest democratic political organization. In an interview with Delo, Maxim REZNIK, leader of the St. Petersburg branch of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko, explained his position. First of all, I would like to stress that Mitrokhin is a liar, a stupid man, and an insolent one at that! Unlike him, I have never even laid eyes on any Nevzlin, so he should not judge others by himself. http://www.spb.yabloko.ru/pbl/3707.php