TODAY: United Russia completes primaries; Right Cause compares Kremlin to monarchy; Medvedev welcomes new President of Abkhazia; Russia to push donor nation status; sexual health billboards could lead to jail. 

United Russia has completed its primaries, adding a teacher, artisan and farmer to its ranks and thereby ‘replacing party bureaucrats with grassroots activists’.  Mikhail Prokhorov’s Right Cause Party is accusing the Kremlin of functioning like a monarchy: ‘The Constitution places it above legislative, executive and judicial branches of power.’  Tabloids ‘adore’ the ‘scandal-prone billionaire’, says the Moscow Times.  The newly-elected President (formerly the Vice President) of Abkhazia, Alexander Ankvab, has been congratulated on his election success by President Dmitry Medvedev, who is in Sochi today for a meeting with the heads of all seven registered parties.  Brian Whitmore at RFE/RL has a round-up of all the latest election news.  No one was injured in this morning’s blast in a parking lot in northern Moscow.  Vladimir Frolov suggests that the decision on who will run for the presidency next year may have been made back in 2007.