The end of the U.S. presidential election is nigh and many young people in the Russian capital are hoping that Democrat candidate Barack Obama will win. They say it will bring a much needed change to relations between Moscow and Washington, while John McC

“With these crazy wars and all this rhetoric, like McCain was asked if Russia was an ‘evil empire’ and he said maybe, I mean come on. He's still got this cold war mentality and thinks that Russians are against him personally. I'm just afraid of this guy,” blues musician Vovka Kozhekin said.

“McCain will continue with Bush's expansionist policies. New wars will follow, but if Obama is President, America will be more concerned with internal problems and will be less belligerent towards the rest of the world. Obama is likely to continue NATO's eastwards expansion but it will be less aggressive,” Samson Sholademi, Russian-born African-American said.

For them, Obama, a Democrat like Russian President Medvedev, represents a new generation, bringing hope of breaking old patterns between Russia and the West.

No matter what happens on Election Day, it seems many Russians will remain True Blues at heart.