Putin themselves asked this guy to run. Not Putin's puppets but Chodorkowsky or someone from the Russian Nationalists could be an Alternative to Putin.
*FAIL* Nemtsov and Kasparov are obviously №2 and №3 of Ostap's candidates list. It is too bad 3 of them combined are, at best, 4% rating in Russia.
I am not sure that he is as much of a Putrid puppet as you imagine . He was very outspoken of the Dwarves when he ran Right Cause , the Pro Business opposition party . In fact , he resigned because he considered that the party was effectively being run by Gazprom HQ and specifically Putrid's pal Surkov. He certainly is tainted by the label of Oligarch , which is ironic because the richest Oligarch in or out of Russia is Putrid himself . And by a huge distance .
Neither Nemtsov nor Kasparov but some leader from a Russian opposition party, e.g. from here: http://translate.google.de/translat...t=2&eotf=1&u=http://rusplatforma.org/&act=url