There’s another Vladimir Putin running in the Dec. 2 parliamentary elections, and this one is a rather unknown lawyer in Stavropol running under the Yabloko ticket. An amusing story from Christian Lowe at Reuters: “Vladimir Putin would like to take his election campaign out into the countryside but there is a problem: his party cannot afford the petrol. “If we could, we would go to every village,” he said, sitting on a park bench in the Russian city of Stavropol during his lunch break. “We do not have the money.””