This fantastic picture says it all.  Vladimir Putin looks up briefly from his reading material to smile knowingly as Liberal Democrat leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky mouths off about Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov in the Duma last week.  It’s hard not to read the smile as Putin taking pleasure at the fact that Zhirinovsky is digging himself into a hole.  That hole, precisely, is a possible one-month ban on speaking in the State Duma.