Putin has a pretty strong hold on Russia. In the city Duma, his United Party holds 33 of the 35 seats which is way more than just majority. But city voters have turned against Putin. Less than fifty percent voted him which opened many opportunities to his opponents. Putin rules by fiat which he calls the "vertical of power." This means that his loyalists dominate the law-making bodies.
Mikhail Velmakin, an emerging politician, believes there is hope for new political faces in Moscow. he is using his philosophy which is a mixture of Gandhi and Tip O'Neill. In 208 when Velmakin was elected to an unpaid on one of Moscow's neighborhood advisory councils he was preparing himself to take protest from the streets into the halls of the government. He and others are organizing a nonpartisan Council of District Deputies providing networking in preparation for elections to the more powerful city Duma in 2014.
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