MOSCOW - Russia woke up to a new political landscape Dec. 8 after liberal parties were all but shut out of the nation's Parliament for the first time in the post-Soviet era.Both of the nation's top liberal parties, Union of Right Forces (SPS) and Yabloko, failed to scrape by the crucial 5 percent barrier needed to win seats by proportional representation in the State Duma.The results meant that liberal parties would not be a significant presence in Russia's lawmaking body for the first time since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991."The democrats no longer exist," said Olga Kryshtanovskaya...
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