On Wednesday, United Russia leaders demanded that Sergei Mironov, the leader of the Just Russia opposition party, be fired from his post of speaker of the Federation Council after he challenged Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s anti-crisis budget plans on national television. This is not the first time Mironov has criticized the proposed budget, but his statements have never elicited such a tough reaction from United Russia’s top leaders. Meanwhile, the Communist Party simply dismissed the barbed exchanges as staged opposition. Is it all pantomime, or are things heating up with the approach of March regional elections?
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