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These establishment liberals, of whom Mr. Prokhorov is very much one, believe "the era of managed democracy is over".

On Thursday, Putin's wealthiest opponent, the oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov, published an essay in Britain's Guardian newspaper saying that the era of the system Putin calls "managed democracy" is at an end.

Certainly, what these stumbling economies are guilty of is a failure to learn from Singapore, a system whose managed democracy is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and which has successfully avoided the sort of interest group sclerosis and corruption that is holding back Brazil, for example.

Managed democracy is becoming less and less manageable".

The Putinology game has continued for six years now.Hardly anyone still hopes that Mr Putin can become the democrat he sometimes claims to be; even "managed democracy" is no longer touted much.

"If Russia is a managed democracy then this was a managed election," Luc van den Brande, the head of the parliamentary assembly (PACE) remarked acidly.

Since then, however, it has become clear that Medvedev is not the liberal reformer that some had hoped but part of Russia's managed democracy construct, in which elections are stage-managed and dissent swiftly squashed.

It is an illiberal or managed democracy in the sense that all important decisions are made by Orban.

It's a specimen of managed democracy.

The Kremlin called it "managed democracy", and at times it has appeared to be stage-managed by Vladimir Putin himself.

This is what the Russians now call "managed democracy".