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March 6th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe said the vote was
beset by irregularities and that the “abuse of government resources
ensured that the ultimate winner of the election was never in doubt”.
“Conditions [for the campaign] were clearly skewed in favour of…
Vladimir Putin”, it said, while the election process “deteriorated
during the count which was assessed negatively in nearly a third of polling
stations”.
Tonino Picula, the head of the OSCE parliamentary assembly delegation, added: “The
point of an election is that the outcome should be uncertain. This was not
the case in Russia. It was not a level playing field.”
The United States urged Russia to conduct an independent investigation into
all the allegations. “We urge the Russian government to conduct an
independent, credible investigation of all reported electoral violations,”
a State Department spokesman said.
David Cameron spoke to Mr Putin on Monday night by telephone, telling him that
Britain would work with Russia to overcome differences between the two
countries.
The Prime Minister said he “looked forward to working with Mr Putin to
build deeper political and trade links”.
Before his arrest on Monday night, Mr Navalny led protesters in Moscow as they
demonstrated against Mr Putin’s triumph, whipping up the crowd with cries of “Russia
without Putin!” Mr Yashin had also given a speech, mocking the new
president for crying during his victory rally on Sunday: “Those were
not tears of joy. No, my friends, it was fear – fear in the eyes of a
dictator,” said Mr Yashin. “Putin knows perfectly well that he has
lost his legitimacy in the eyes of the people.”
Mr Putin met three of the four losing candidates earlier and promised them to
investigate allegations of electoral fraud. He said he would ask Vladimir
Churov, the chairman of Russia’s election commission, to “thoroughly
check all possible violations about which you have spoken”. But Mr
Churov was swift to dismiss claims of mass fraud, saying that there were
likely no more than 300 irregularities compared with the 4,000 suggested by
observers. Independent monitoring groups earlier reported numerous cases of “carousel
voting” in which people are driven around to vote for one candidate at
several polling stations.
Bizarrely, Mr Churov also accused international observers of being spies,
saying: “More and more often, monitors feel the irresistible desire to
penetrate border zones, closed nuclear sites, missile centres and so on. The
number of those with such a desire is growing.” William Hague, the
Foreign Secretary, delayed issuing a statement on the vote, which is
customary the day after a major election. His office had said that it was
awaiting the preliminary report of the OSCE mission, and stressed that “as
a Council of Europe member state, Russia has an obligation to uphold key
democratic norms and standards”.
Baronness Ashton, the EU’s chief diplomat, merely said the bloc “took note”
of the outcome of the election.
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, spoke to Mr Putin to wish him success in
his presidency, but Guido Westerwelle, the German foreign minister, said he
hoped Russia would recognise that it was on “the wrong side of history”
and rethink its stance on Syria.
Unsurprisingly, the most effusive statements came from Damascus, which has
benefited from Russia’s defence at the United Nations, and China.
Syria’s official Sana news agency said President Bashar al-Assad “offered
in his name and that of the Syrian people his sincere congratulations for
his remarkable election”.
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