and the latter's nickname for the ruling United Russia party as the "party of crooks and thieves" has been adopted by anti-regime protesters. This led to The Wall Street Journal calling Navalny "the man Vladimir Putin fears most" in March 2012. (Navalny died in prison in 2024.)

Mainstream popularity

By 2004, the role of blogs became increasingly mainstream, as political consultants,

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