Ah, Russian politics! It just makes ours look so lame & wimpy.

When the debate ended, some dudes who were sitting in the corner of the club drinking vodka, started shouting insults at Gaidar. One of the bloggers (the guy with the bleeding face down below) decided to confront the hecklers out on the street. But instead of getting through to them, he got popped in the face. In return, he took out a pellet gun and fired of a few rounds into the head of the guy that threw the punch. (That’s the guy with a hole in his forehead). Both were arrested. As it turned out, the guy with the gun is a member of the liberal Yabloko party. A liberal with a gat: how freakin’ cool is that!? Americans can maybe learn a little something.