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Putin accuses West of encroaching on Russian interests

Note in Afghanistan the registered voters exceeded the total that was eligible to vote.
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These are not democratic elections they are takeovers.

There will be repercussions although always not apparent to the cause.

Another interesting aspect that I do not see discussed is that these countries while succumbing to an enormous propaganda blitz produced by the West have failed to recognize that the upcoming new world leader is not a democratic country but rather an autocratic country, China.

A little dilemma here, the autocratic country is starting to look better than the democratic country. Not a very good selling point for democracy. It was under democracy that Bush lost our dominant role.

Perhaps the Ukrainians should have considered tomorrow instead of yesterday and today. Albeit it would be surprising if the Ukrainians were able to mull over the full implications of their actions as in the past two years alone, the American government has spent more than 65 million dollars to help the Ukrainian opposition to power. This has been confirmed within the past few days by government representatives. Additional millions came from private donators such as the Soros Foundation, and European governments. Had to have been some brainwashing going on with this massive a campaign.

-Am

Putin accuses West of encroaching on Russian interests
Dec. 24, 2004



Russian President Vladimir Putin, today accused the United States and the West of encroaching on Russian interests in the post-Soviet space and isolating Russia by adopting double standards of democracy and human rights. Addressing about 700 Russian and foreign journalists at his annual Kremlin press conference, he blasted Polish President Kwasnievski, for his recent interview in which the Polish leader said that a ''Russia without Ukraine'' was in favour of the US than a Russia with Ukraine. Poland is widely seen by Russia as the conduit of pursuing US policies in the former East European Soviet allies. "I am going to shortly meet (US) President (George W) Bush (on February 24 in Bratislava). I will ask him about this. If this is so, then it explains the (the West's) policy on Chechnya, they want to shake Russia," Putin said at the packed three-hour long press conference televised live by the state-run TV channels. In his obvious reference to last November's American financed ''Revolution of Roses'' in Georgia and recent West funded ''Orange Revolution'' in Ukraine, Putin expressed his concern at the West's attempts to resolve the political issues on post-Soviet space with what he called ''unlawful means''. "You know, the most dangerous thing is the creation of a system of permanent revolutions - inventing ''rosy'' or some ''bluish'' ones. One should learn to live in accordance with laws and not by political expediency, which are defined at a different place for this or that nation. This concerns me more," Putin said. Putin blasted ''double standards'' adopted by the US and the European Union on ''democratic elections'' saying that it is well known that in Afghanistan 'sacks full of ballots were brought in from neighbouring Pakistan'', in Kosovo 200 thousand Serbs were deprived of the right to vote, but they (US and EU) claimed that elections were democratic. He forecasted the similar verdict of the West for the Iraqi polls next month under the US occupation and increasing hostilities. However, Putin said that his relations with his US counterpart George W Bush were cordial. "Bush is a man of integrity and a partner who can be trusted," he said. Describing Russia and US - world's two biggest nuclear powers - not only partners, but ''allies'' in combating global terror, Putin underscored that they share joint responsibility to check the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Responding to a question about his attack on uni-polar world order made in New Delhi while delivering the Jawaharlal Nehru memorial lecture, Putin underscored that "overwhelming majority" of the world leaders back Russia on the issue of a law-run democratic multi-polar world order.

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