An interesting article on the New York Times describes the actual Italy quite well: depressed, angry, afraid of the future.

It's interesting to see the related photoset too.

In Italy the blogger Beppe Grillo wrote about it (in italian). It's also spoken in the blog Stelle a strisce (italian blog of a woman living in NY)

Here starts the dictatorship?

MOSCA - The leader of the opposition movement "Other Russia", Garry Kasparov, said, in an interview to the TG1 (the main italian tv news journal), that the victory of the Vladimir Putin party, "United Russia", at the legislative elections, signs the beginning of the dictatorship in the Country. "All that powership that Putin has built around him and that, in the electoral campaign, is transformed in a political-administrative structure able to destroy any form of dissent: in one word dictatorship". (Agr)

(From Corriere.it; Here is the link to a Kasparov post in english language about the elections)

Other links (in italian):
ANSA.it: OSCE: ELEZIONI IN RUSSIA 'NON CORRETTE' (OSCE: ELECTIONS IN RUSSIA HAVE BEEN "NOT CORRECT")