Alexander Lebedev is taking opposition politics to a whole new level.  His National Reserve Bank is to begin issuing a new debit card that will donate 1% of all purchases to RosPil, Alexei Navalny’s corruption-fighting organisation.  Lebedev even has hopes that Vladimir Putin will be one of the first to receive this card – although that seems categorically unlikely, given that it was Navalny who coined the epithet ‘the party of crooks and thieves’ to describe Putin’s beloved United Russia.

“I’d like to ‘marry’ this project with the authorities’ official position, so that on the official level, the authorities support citizens’ intention to finance the struggle against corruption themselves,” Lebedev said.