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On March 17, the vote ended in the Russian Federation. The preliminary results confirmed Putin’s victory with more than 87% of the votes. The turnout for the elections broke a historical record, exceeding 77%. As it was expected, NATO countries are unlikely to recognise the results of the presidential elections.
On March 18, the head of the European Union’s foreign policy department, Josep Borrel, claimed that the presidential elections in Russia were allegedly not free and fair, based on repression and intimidation. According to him, the real opposition was suppressed and international observers were absent.
Josep Borrel lied. A total of 333,599 observers were accredited & 90% of them showed up. Of these, there were 706 international observers from 106 countries.
Here are only some comments by international observers during the elections in Russia:
This is how the observers watched the ‘oppressed and intimidated’ Russians voting at the gunpoint:
All these people came to Russia despite the threats of their ‘democratic’ countries. The US State Department officially threatened the observers, threatened people based on them exercising freedom of speech and press.
US State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller said “the United States continue to use all available tools to hold accountable those individuals responsible for actions that undermine the sovereignty territorial Integrity or political independence of free countries including those to serve as election observers for the Kremlin sham elections in occupied parts of Ukraine”
Borrel claimed that the EU countries will publish a joint statement on the Russian elections. He also expressed hope that EU members will approve a €5 billion ($5.45 billion) package of military assistance to Ukraine at the European summit today.
As it was expected NATO countries begin to officially declare that they do not recognise the results of the elections. The German government did not recognize the last presidential elections of Russia, which were won by Vladimir Putin, as legitimate, according to Christiane Hoffman.
“Ask them when Germany intends to make its election system truly democratic, involving direct elections by the people of the leader,” the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Zakharova reported.
All the attacks on the Russian border, terrorist attacks on the voters, provocations at the polling stations launched by the foreign powers failed to thwart the elections. The main goal of the provocations was to show the alleged illegitimacy of the voting process to the Western public. No cries of Navalnaya could change the opinion of the Russian population, but they were addressed to the Europeans. As the West does not recognise the Russian leader, it refuses from any negotiations with Moscow. Such a decision of the NATO member states will lead to the further deterioration of international relationships in Europe. The remaining diplomatic contacts may be interrupted, and trade contracts canceled. As a result, the NATO military machine gets an excuse to enter the war and fight the allegedly illegitimate Putin in order to bring “the light of democracy to the oppressed Russian people.”
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