Anger is rising among protesters in Russia, with President Dmitry Medvedev hoping to calm the tide of dissent with a promise to have an inquiry into the claims of fraud in the parliamentary election.
Tens of thousands of protesters have been rallying for days around Russia, demanding that the election be thrown out and a new one held. The United Russia Party won 50 percent of the vote amid claims of ballot box stuffing.
Protesters jeered at the promised inquiry, noting that they would be conducted by members of the United Russia Party. French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe appeared to reject the notion of a new election as well, urging United Russia to learn “lessons” from the protests about the election.
Despite the claims of fraud on their behalf, the vote was actually a significant loss for United Russia, which saw its majority in parliament virtually evaporate. The vote appeared to be more a mandate against them than one for any of their rivals, however, as none of the opposition parties gained a particularly large amount of seats, and the United Russia seats got split mostly down the middle by the three largest opposition parties.
It is proven without question that the US state dept has been funding Russian groups in a deliberate attempt to stir up dissent and demonstrations.
(Of course in the US tens of thousands protest against the government and the corporate greed without Russia paying out a penny.)
It appears now that the EU contagion of democracy is spreading to NATO countries.
In the EU if you vote against a treaty you have to go back and vote again until you vote the 'right' way.
Ask Ireland.
So now any vote in any country that the us state dept doesn't like – they just bribe the people within to demand new elections until the people vote the State dept way.
It may have happened in the 'colour' revolutions – all of which are being reversed but the yanks will get two finger from most Russians.
And hopefully those taking dollars to betray their nation will be exposed and tried for downright treason.
What I find puzzling, is that in spite of all of the claims of vote fraud, Putin's united party essentially LOST thier majority in the Duma. Also, all of the pre-eelction polls actually showed that the United party would lose their majoirty and this IS what happened. If there was any real fraud, it must've been within the margin of error, because this just doesn't add up. Also, other two major Russian parties who gained seats have stated that they are satisfied with the vote results. Interestingly, the Russsian government has been very tolerant of the protests without any major massacres or incidents. I think Putin/Medvedev are smart enough to know that this would've played right into the hands of the Americans. Not content with the lack of massacres coming out of Russia during the protests, CNN & Fox decided to air video from the riots in Greece (from a few months back) during their broadcasts and attribute them to what was "happening" in Russia!? CNN issued a retraction, but Fox hasn't.
I don't think he would commit massacres (which I think criminal groups seeking to oust Putin would do) after all his main goal it to keep Russia a united block and if push comes to shove he probably would step down as long as there is a support infrastructure as they don’t want a Egypt situation.
What’s more frightening is that the Far West Gulf group comprising of former Soviet intelligence and military, Oligarchs, YUKOs, Haliburton, CIA/MI6 and Chechen and Islamic terrorism since the collapse of the USSR are running terrorist and crime networks against Russia and involved in other colour revolutions in the region are behind the protest movement whose goal is to dismember Russia along Turkic ethnic lines as well as western policy makers.
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