
The opposition prepares stuffing and videos to discredit elections on March 4. As RIA Novosti reports, Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with his supporters and political scientists. “Of course, we have reason to believe that our opponents are preparing for these events. Now I will say it publicly, and criticism will begin:“ Let's evidence. ”In principle, we can present it. They are preparing to use some mechanisms that would confirm that the elections are falsified. They will throw it ourselves, then present it ourselves. We already see it, we already know this,” Putin said.
“When the election results are announced in advance by illegitimate, this is just one of the tools of struggle. I think that these are tools that are not acceptable for a democratic society. We need to respect the opinion of the minority, but obey the choice of the majority. This is the most important thing, and the minority has no right to impose its point of view,” Putin added.
The day before, the head of the Central Election Commission Vladimir Churov said that videos from polling stations on the day of elections on March 4 had already appeared on the Internet. "On the Internet there are already rollers shot, allegedly, on March 4," Churov said at a meeting with the heads of the election commission of the constituent entities of the Federation. According to him, he was sent such a video shot on a site in Lyubertsy. “That is, they have already voted in the Lyubertsy,” he remarked. The head of the CEC called on the members of the district commissions "calmly treat such provocations."
On February 26, the user 4marchvideo posted on YouTube a video, in the first part of which a certain voter discovers that they have already voted for him. The next part is devoted to the exposure of the "carousel" in the Moscow site. Further, the author photographed members of the election commission, which are affixed in ballots of voice for Vladimir Putin. The video is accompanied by the signature: "As we see, all falsifications in the elections of the President of Russia have already happened, and even captured on the video." The user claims that the videos are made to discredit elections by order of the opposition leaders, including Alexei Navalny and Boris Nemtsov. 4marchvideo claims to be stolen from one of the Moscow underground video studios.
Journalist Andrei Malgin called the appearance of a video with falsifications of "an interesting idea of the Putin Propaganda Machine." “The goal is clear: to mix these fakes with those real falsifications that will necessarily be. At the same time, our attention will be drawn to the date of posting a video on the network. Or maybe the actors will be announced or recognized,” Malgin wrote.
On Tuesday evening, in the Moscow metro, the activists of the "Solidarity" detained and handed over to the police of absenteeism. The police report that the activists themselves were also detained. According to the press service of the movement, the participants in the "Solidarity", together with the group of journalists, arrived at the Voikovskaya station on an ad on the Internet and met with a woman who introduced herself to Natalia Kolpakova and promised 400 rubles for a absenteeism. She took the absent-minded activists of Alexei Nikitin and the journalist of Novaya Gazeta Alexei Pomerantsev and promised to pay in a day or two as soon as she gains 100 coupons. The meeting starred in the video . Activists called the police. Another alleged buyer was detained by the activist of Solidarity Dmitry Shchedrin at the Nagatinskaya station.
Meanwhile, the press service of the GUMVD in Moscow reported on "suppressing provocative actions to try to buy and sell absenteeism in the metro." It is emphasized that three representatives of the youth wing of "solidarity" tried to sell absenteeism. “This is a complete lies. Our representatives were not just distributing the coupons, on the contrary, they assisted in the detention of these distributors,” said Olga Shorina, spokesman for solidarity.
In the last election article, published in the Moscow News, Vladimir Putin sharply criticized US foreign policy and the practice of international control of compliance with human rights. Washington regularly tries to "engage in" political engineering ", including in regions traditionally important for us, and during the election campaigns in Russia, Putin writes in the article" Russia and the Changing World ".
Putin accuses the United States of the Uzurpation of Human Rights Dossier, double standards in the fight against terrorism and "aggressive criticism" in relation to Russia. “It seems that the NATO, and above all, had a peculiar understanding of security, fundamentally different from ours. The Americans are obsessed with the idea to ensure absolute invulnerability, which, I note, utopically and unrealized both in the technological and geopolitically. But this is, in fact, the essence of the problem,” writes Putin.