The Seliger summer camp has all the hallmarks of any camp; it promotes the values of team building, sharing and participation all under the evergreen canopy of the great outdoors. Unlike other camps however, it is accompanied by the deafening primal scream of United Russia’s arch nationalism.  The Kremlin’s annual journey into the heart of darkness has in the past offered some startling examples of the inevitable descent into atavism – with participants at last year’s meet shooting at likenesses of Condoleeza Rice and other Kremlin critics impaled on stakes.

This weekend Russia’s opposition set up their own camp on the political battleground that is the Khimki forest.  The Independent’s Shaun Walker reports on their rather more wholesome program: