They patted me on the head goodbye
Presidential candidate and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, at a meeting with young lawyers who wanted to be election observers, paid several compliments to the founder of Yabloko, Grigory Yavlinsky, who was denied registration as a candidate, and his party. According to Putin, Yavlinsky's program "is not very realistic, but on the whole it is correct." Yavlinsky and his party have “a lot of positive ideas,” the prime minister said.