Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been declared an honorary citizen of Kosovo for ‘safeguard[ing its] territorial integrity‘, to the disdain of its Interior Minister, who called it ‘a pathetic move‘.  Elections in Russia ‘are always won by United Russia‘, says The Economist, which also hones in on the relatively new Russian Patriots party winning almost 8% of the vote, and wonders whether the party is a Kremlin-backed project, designed to act as ‘a spoiler for the Communist Party‘?  Putin is urging his own opposition not to ‘get angry […] or curse anybody‘ in the wake of the regional elections, although he acknowledges that, whilst the policy of the leading political party should always be problem-solving, it is the opposition’s role to criticize.  Strategy 31 organizer Lyudmila Alexeyeva may try to move the group’s monthly protests to Pushkin Square in a bid to gather more protesters (and possibly to avoid confrontations with the unsanctioned faction of its own group under the direction of Eduard Limonov), having run into so much trouble attempting to gather in Triumfalnaya Square, which is now surrounded by a construction barrier.