Leonid Slutsky: “Joe Biden extended the decree on the application of unilateral sanctions against foreign organizations and individuals for interfering in the US elections for a year. It was on the basis of this document that Washington previously introduced restrictions against a number of Russians and Russian legal entities for allegedly interfering in the electoral process. Of course, without any reason or any evidence.
Moscow has repeatedly denied all accusations of complicity in the US electoral process. Much has already been said about this, but now I would like to focus on the wording from today’s statement by Biden – the decision to extend the decree was made “in connection with the threat of foreign interference in the US elections and undermining public confidence in them.”
In other words, the American election cannot even be doubted! They are always “the most honest” and “the most democratic”. True, the last election campaign ended with the storming of the Capitol. At the same time, in the Congress, even with all the desire, they could not find confirmation that it was a question of orchestrated protests.
But in the Russian parliament everything is in order with the evidence. The State Duma Commission, headed by Vasily Piskarev, revealed numerous facts of foreign interference in the electoral processes in Russia by Western NGOs and the media, and also pointed to the formation of a certain tendency for the upcoming elections to the State Duma of the 8th convocation not to be recognized abroad as legitimate. Moreover, the deliberate discrediting of their results began many days before the start of voting and summing up the results, which we can see in the example of the European Parliament.
The American elections in Brussels have not been analyzed with such zeal and are not going to do so. This is different …”
