Speaking in the wake of several major anti-regime protests, which accused his government of rigging the election, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin lashed out at the US, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in particular, saying they had been fueling the protests.
Putin said the protesters were acting “in accordance with a well-known scenario and in their own mercenary political interests.” His United Russia Party scored roughly 50% of the popular vote in the contested election, with the Communist Party coming in second place.
Secretary Clinton condemned the elections several times over the week, saying that Russians “deserve the right to have their voices heard and their votes counted.” After Putin’s comments she insisted the US “supports the aspirations” of Russia’s people.
Though there seem to be a number of allegations of ballot stuffing on behalf of the ruling party, no other party appeared to gain a solid consensus. The Communist Party gained some seats, but so did the Socialist “Just Russia” bloc and the Liberal Democrats.
The interesting thing is not whether or not this is true. The interesting thing is that an embattled Russian President thinks that tying the poll protest to the US CIA and their color revolutions is the best way to stay in power. Thanks to wonderful US policies like worldwide Terror Wars, the best thing to be seen as in many parts of the world is to be an opponent of the US and the CIA.
It is well known since Putin came to power Soros/NED/USAID/British foreign office as well as the Oligarchs have been supporting all the opposition and civil society projects (600,000 at one point) and in neighbouring Russian orientated countries especially Belarus since 94.
Where are the ballot rigging allegations said to have taken place as Voice of Russia interviewed international observers at the time praising the election?
Allegations seem to have come from a coloured revolution linked NGO and amateur videos of vote fraud uploaded on YouTube.
Haha, he tries to attack the opposition by saying they are backed by the US and the white house´s hideous pet klingon supports him in that.
Glory to the Russian nationalists, may all plutocrats go to Hades!
American media are eager to see Moscow burn. They've been showing footage of riots on Fox and CNN that turned out to be of Greek and Italian riots. I guess they thought the Moscow footage was not incendiary enough for their fantasy reality.
go for it obaminator