The US State Department has announced that Russia has ordered all USAID operations halted in the country, following up on Russian complaints that the agency is meddling in the nation’s internal politics.
The Russian government has complained that President Obama’s move to set aside money for “pro-democracy” funding, which in practice is amounting to them aiding certain opposition parties seen favorable to US interests.
This has been a problem with US “democracy” funding in a number of nations, notably Egypt, where the junta moved against US “aid workers” in the run-up to that election, saying they were illegally campaigning for parties without licenses.
The move is a major blow to what President Obama had been touting as a “reset” of relations with Russia, though the US insists that they will continue to “support democracy” in Russia even without USAID.
This is outrageous!
Who do those Russians think they are, anyway?
The US has been given the right by God to involve itself in the politics of every country on the planet, except Israel, of course.
Good. It's about time. Make no mistake about it: Groups like USAID & The National Endowment for Democracy IS the CIA – In fact, the latter was set up in the 1980s by the Reagan administration precisely as a cover for the CIA to channel funds to its agents and supporters without being itself directly implicated. While many of these NGO's will continue to try and undermine Putin by funding fringe fifth columnists & other "opposition" figures, this will make it a lot harder for them to do it.
The US would NEVER tolerate this kind of interference in its own domestic affairs. The US also has strict laws (Russia just recently implemented one themselves, which is pretty much a cut & paste of the American one!) to prevent foreign NGO's (Israel is exempt…obviously) from doing what the US is doing in Russia.
Putin needs to establish RUSSAID to fund pro-democracy NGOs in the United States. Let's face it democracy is relatively further down the ****ter in the US than it is in Russia. And don't get me started on democracy in S****horpe.
Everyone in Russia (elsewhere) dealing with USAID should have to register as an agent of a foreign power.
This is well worth reading:
http://marknesop.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/russia-…
The western MSM bitches about what an authoritarian hell-hole Russia is, but when they adopt western laws such as this one, the western media creates an uproar without even acknowledging that Russia's new law is modeled after the US law on the topic! As the writer of this article says "it makes it more difficult for those who would like to overthrow the Russian government to do it."
Usaid is a business organization, there is no Aid involved, is either politics or business involving us businesses or the government, every dollars given as US aid, or given as aid, the return must be 8 times more in terms of business participating in doing business with aided counteris. Interns of "democracy"'.., the US democracy is based on falsified notion that there is a democracy wanting it to work for others(in this case russia). Look US is a militarism regime so is NATO, prospect of such system can not be based on democracy, if it was then US or EU wouldn't be at war all the time wanting to build nations….? Democracy is not based on Nation Building, but it is the Nations responsibilities to build their own democracy and not US nor even the responsibilitys of the Swedish neo fascist liberal.
This may help some smaller nations develop the backbone to eject the CIA/NGOs from their nations. Can we get some dominoes going on this?
Good! Kick 'em all out. Yankees go home!
Yesterday the US Ambassador to Russia, Mr.McFaul, happily twitted the Carnegie Foundation findings regarding Americans' attitude toward other countries. If in 2011 about 47% of Americans thought favorably about Russia, one year later only 39% like Russia. Good Job, Ambassador!
The first thing he did, before even submitting his credentials was to meet with the opposition. And such activities by the US Embassy continue to this day. I won't be surprised if the next step of Russia will be to declare Mcfaul "persona non-grata" and send him packing, too.
I would love to visit Russia . . . . but interfer in their politics? That is just a mixture of arrogance and stupidity. I have a friend from Russia, and sure, we discuss the issues, but does he ever tell me how we should run our country? Hell no, and vice versa.