The good news - for the United Russia - came as approximately 30,000 members of the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi rallied in Moscow to celebrate the victory in Sunday's vote for the State Duma. The Communist Party is now the second largest party with 11.57 per cent of the vote.

Two other parties have also earned more than 7-per-cent of the votes, thus entering the Duma. Those two are: the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party with 8.14 per cent and the pro-Putin Fair Russia party with 7.74 per cent.

The rallies begun on the election day, but this, the fourth day of rally, is the largest. The local television showed pro-Putin youths celebrating the victory from the Vasilyevsky Spusk square near the Kremlin. They were reportedly holding flags and were dressed in uniform white capes inked red with the slogan "Our Victory" and sketches of Putin.

Near the walls of the Kremlin nearly 15,000 youths gathered around a stage where a young man paced around in front of a sign proclaiming: "Our future with Putin".

"Not all our country believes in a future with him," he told the crowd. "They want an ineffective, weak country. We are for a great, strong country," Reuters informed.

In order to avoid a revolution like Ukraine and Georgia witnessed in 2003 and 2004, the Russian authorities have arranged a network of youth groups centered on Nashi that would counter any opposition or enemies of the country, as they call them.

According to analysts, Nashi and the groups affiliated to them have transformed in an army of docile militia willing to persecute the Kremlin's enemies and project mass support for the government.