Source:
The Telegraph
Andrew Osborn
Vladimir Putin has accused the United States of orchestrating public unrest on
Russia’s streets after last Sunday’s disputed parliamentary election in a
Cold War-style outburst certain to damage US-Russia relations.
In his first comments on three days of anti-Kremlin protests, the
Russian
prime minister alleged that Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, had
deliberately encouraged his political opponents to take to the streets in
Moscow and St. Petersburg.
“She sent a signal to some activists inside the country,” Mr Putin told a
meeting of his supporters. “They got the message and started active work
with the support of the US state department.”
Mrs Clinton angered the Kremlin after she declared that the vote, which
international observers said was riddled with fraud, was neither free nor
fair.
But Mr Putin accused Mrs Clinton of rushing to conclusions before the facts
were all in.
He said: “I watched the reaction of our American partners. The first thing
that the secretary of state said was that the elections were dishonest and
unfair even though she had not even received material from the election
monitors at that stage.”
Source: Corbett Report
