Re: Interview of RT on the Russian Elections - 05March2012
Putin Wins
By Stephen Lendman
3-6-12 Pre-election polls predicted around a 60% majority. Final results show Putin won 63.6% of the vote. He got a clear third term mandate. In 2004, he won 71%.
Five candidates contended:
United Russia's Vladimir Putin
The Communist Party's Gennady Zyuganov
The Liberal Democratic Party's Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Just Russia's Sergey Mironov
Independent candidate Mikhail Prokhorov (billionaire/Russia's third richest man)
With nearly all votes counted, official results were as follows:
Putin: 63.6%
Zyuganov: 17.2%
Prokhorov: 7.9%
Zhirinovsky: 6.2%
Mironov: 3.9%
Turnout was 63.3%. It exceeded December's parliamentary elections.
Opponents allege fraud. So do major media scoundrels. At issue isn't who won or lost. Nor is it about a fair or fraudulent process. America's electoral system is hopelessly corrupted and broken, yet media giants praise it.
They also cheerlead America's imperial agenda. As a result, they reject Putin's opposition along with China, Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, perhaps Brazil and India, and others fed up with what harms their interests.
Putin's especially outspoken. He accused America of living beyond its means "like a parasite" harming the global economy. He also called dollar dominance a threat to financial markets. If America's in "systemic malfunction" it affects everyone, he added.
In 2003, he denounced Washington's Iraq war, saying:
"The use of force abroad, according to existing international laws, can only be sanctioned by the United Nations. This is the international law. Everything that is done without the UN Security Council's sanction cannot be recognised as fair or justified."
"I am being as restrained as I can be when I choose these words," he added. "There were no international terrorists under Hussein," nor WMDs.
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