Following a link from kashin, I ended up on the site http://www.rus-obr.ru/. There’s a completely trashy article about Yavlinsky and the liberalism of the 1990s there: "Perhaps the most ridiculous and worthless politician of the 1990s has finally left the country’s political stage — Grigory Alexeyevich Yavlinsky. An eternally absurd little nonentity, mumbling under his breath the same banalities everyone has long been sick of. ... A dreary man with a puffy face and a curly little head — there are so many like that in this empty party. ... And yet the most honest politician and a true liberal, Grigory Alexeyevich Yavlinsky, bought himself a fairly large mansion in London. ... And the little worms began crawling off in search of other apples. Some even started rebelling against their liberal Führer. He won’t give them room to breathe, won’t let them merge with the SPS (Union of Right Forces) in one liberal impulse, sidle up to the cash desk of RAO UES (Unified Energy System of Russia) and get not one and a half but a full two and a half percent in the next vote. ... A cozy little company of old has-beens, kicked to the sidelines of life. Welcome, Grigory Alexeyevich — they’ve been expecting you in this poorhouse for a long time. ... Other people are replacing the leaders of the liberal parties of the 1990s. Mitrokhin and Nikita Belykh alike are middle-aged men, nondescript, well-fed fellows with the faces of space pirates. If people like that "dump" the party, it’s not so страшно anymore. Especially since they are persistent, talentless, and very fond of internal party life." The article is signed "Artyom Akopyan," but both the "author profile" and the "published by" line say "Yegor Kholmogorov." Just curious — does Artyom Akopyan actually exist, or is this Yegor amusing himself?

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