Manageable Nationalists?

Michael A. McFaul - If the results of the exit polls hold, and there is no reason to expect that they will not, the following trends are clear: The parties that are surging are United Russia, Homeland and LDPR. There are three things which unite those parties: i) they all have support from the Kremlin (two of the three were created by the Kremlin); ii) they are very loyal to President Putin; iii) they are all running on platforms with varying degrees of nationalism (United Russia is the softest with its central "Strong Russia" campaign slogan, while the other two parties advocate a more virulent form of nationalism).