1.Supported by President Putin, Sergey Mironov's, the Chairman of the Council of Federation, initiative to convoke the whole left-wing center under his command, to absorb into his Party of Life both the remains of the Motherland Party and the gaining strength Pensioners' Party had resulted not just in confusion within the government party ranks, but also in the disarray of loosing guide-posts which had been laboriously remounted along our still chaotic political space.
2.In current moral and psychological situation in Russia, the emergence of the second, left-wing at this time, government party can in no way help to strengthen the multi-party system. No doubt, the polemics, two-way verbal pricking between the ardent Putin's supporter Gryzlov and the ardent Putin's supporter Mironov are bringing some longed-for intrigue into our boring political life. But it helps in no way - in absolutely no way - to overcome the window-dressing nature of our democracy.
3.That is the present political scenery: the people guided by the mentality and psychology of favoritism, the two government parties, the scene where you cannot tell a true Putin's supporter from an untrue one, and where - the most important thing - you cannot clearly see what Putin wants himself, who he is going to make his successor, what party he is going to make the principal one.