Welcome to USSR, democracy in Russia is dead. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fcb889WVDg"]Putin up for second stint as Russia's president - YouTube[/ame]
Does not matter: Russia will belong to China soon enough: Eastern Russia is being swamped by Chinese immigrants, while the Russian ethnicity is experiencing great brain drain and population decrease. Personally, I think the Chinese will make much better use of the land than the Russians ever did.