and this is sort of the standard kremlin practice, to get some parties together for puppet election, and then sort of let them lie dormant for a while, and then breathe new life into them just in time for the next election. so he was handed one of those parties, called the right deal. and he got serious about it very, very quickly. he is a guy who actually has a lot of trouble doing something halfway. so we started doing it all the way. he was looking -- he was holding policy meetings every weekend. he was calling on local leaders to join the party. he was won by the crewmen that this was more activity than expected of him. [laughter] didn't listen, and showed up to his own party congress in september own to find himself locked out. the party, the kremlin had a party and then it taken aback. so prokhorov organize part of his party, and gave an impassioned speech saying that he would fight this, he would fight the kremlin puppeteers. he would go all the way and he would come back and he promised to come back in 10 days with a specific plan for a fight, and then he disappeared. complet