March 5, 2015
THE WEAK WHINGE:
Russia Accuses U.S. of Plot to Oust Putin Via Opposition Aid (Evgenia Pismennaya & Henry Meyer, March 4, 2015, Bloomberg)
Russia's Security Council accused the U.S. of plotting to oust President Vladimir Putin by financing the opposition and encouraging mass demonstrations, less than a week after a protest leader was murdered near the Kremlin.The U.S. is funding Russian political groups under the guise of promoting civil society, just as in the "color revolutions" in the former Soviet Union and the Arab world, council chief Nikolai Patrushev said in an e-mailed statement Wednesday. At the same time, the U.S. is using the sanctions imposed over the conflict in Ukraine as a "pretext" to inflict economic pain and stoke discontent, he said.
Posted by Orrin Judd at March 5, 2015 6:29 PM
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