Well, if you're stuck for silver, I once read a czech folk remedy for lycanthropy, that you could cure a werewolf by smacking him on the nose with a ring of keys.
However, running around smacking senators on the nose with the keys to your Kia during a session of Congress as being well recieved by Homeland Security.
I wouldn't worry about Russian politicians though. Did you ever see that old tape of Kruschev? Any werewolf that went after him when he had a shoe handy was in for a surprise..........