Negative publicity generated by the All-Russia People’s Front (apparently now even Muammar Gaddafi is a member, thanks to the rule that ‘anyone can register under any name and any number of times‘) could hinder its original objective of helping United Russia win extra votes this year, says the Moscow Times.  President Dmitry Medvedev is praising Mikhail Prokhorov’s Right Cause party (which happens to support his re-election) for Russia’s model of government in which ‘everything is determined by the center; it’s impossible for the country to progress that way.‘  Prokhorov also called Vladimir Putin’s front ‘laughable‘, and hinted that he would like to step into Putin’s Prime Ministerial role.  St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matviyenko says she is ‘not of a revolutionary nature‘ and is not planning to rock any boats in the Federation Council.