Up to 30,000 Kremlin youth activists are expected to flood Moscow today, ostensibly to keep order and "prevent provocations" and to bolster the impression that the ruling United Russia party still enjoys widespread popular support. All methods appear to be legitimate. One Russian journalist, posing as a volunteer, phoned up President Medvedev's fan club, the skimpily-dressed Medvedev girls, and said he was offered the equivalent of 600 pounds to round up twenty pro-Kremlin activists to trudge the Russian capital's snow-covered streets for a few days. Mr Putin's own female fan club, the so-called Army of Putin, has also been busy making videos lauding their idol, while local officials have been caught bribing voters with free bags of food and vodka shots.