HOW DO WE CONVINCE THEM THE PARTY'S OVER?

Today's Moscow Times carried a story saying that the Belarussian secretary of the "Union State" between Belarus and Russia said that Putin should have more than two terms as president of Russia. The basis for this was his theory that while in the West countries are run by corporations, in Russia they are run by Tsars, and power like Putin's (and the Belarussian president's) is granted by God.

Putin, of course, disavowed the statement and said the statement was unrelated to reality. Still, you wonder how many Russians and Belrussians, and Ukrainians, and Kazakhs and other non-Baltic former Soviets agree...