Spurred by the government’s refusal to register Parnas, Garry Kasparov is calling for a boycott of Russia’s electoral process ahead of September’s ‘farce‘.  The Communist, Liberal Democratic and A Just Russia parties have all complained that United Russia’s majority in the the Duma session, whose Spring session has just ended, meant that their initiatives were subject to the ‘heavy spirit of stagnation‘.  Sergei Mironov is anticipating that a continuation of this monopoly after September’s Duma elections would lead to popular unrest: ‘the situation will explode‘.  Could Russia’s bikers end up constituting a grassroots political movement? Mikhail Arkadyev, the conductor of Vladivostok’s Pacific Symphony Orchestra, believes that his ‘refusal to have anything to do with the All-Russian People’s Front‘ is the cause of his annual contract not being up for renewal next year.