Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 20:15:14 -0400
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Subject: [lpaz-repost] (fwd) CAS: OT? Moscow Times/WND: [Russian] Deputies Want to Save U.S.
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On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:57:52 -0700, "Scott Jordan" <scott_c_jordan@yahoo.com> wrote:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/forum/skyline.htm
Deputies Want to Save U.S.
By Anna Badkhen
Staff Writer
Vote fraud alert! U.S. democracy is in danger!
But Americans need not worry: A group of vigilant Russian lawmakers is
determined to ride to the rescue.
Saying they are alarmed by "deep concern with the possible falsification" of
upcoming U.S. presidential elections, nine State Duma deputies have cobbled
together a two-page resolution to that they say will help keep the vote
fair.
The resolution, which is expected to be voted on by parliament Friday, calls
for the government to send a group of observers to monitor the Nov. 7 vote
and to set up a foundation to protect U.S. democracy. It also envisions a
Voice of Russia radio station transmission to the United States "to provide
for the freedom of alternative information sources for American citizens."
"Why do Americans always teach everyone democracy? Why dont we go and see
what kind of democracy they have?" Deputy Georgy Tikhonov, one of the
resolutions authors, said by telephone Wednesday.
Other authors of the resolution include hard-core Communist Vasily Shandybin
and seven other deputies from the Communist Party and the Regions of Russia
faction.
Tikhonov said the resolution was inspired by the United States conduct
during the disputed parliamentary elections in Belarus earlier this month.
The U.S. government called those elections unfair and refused to send
observers to Belarus. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe and the European Union, which sent only a low-level team of observers
to the poll, agreed that the election did not meet international standards.
However, Russia backed the elections as fair and democratic, and the Foreign
Ministry said the vote has been carried out "calmly and in an organized
fashion."
"We have never seen more democratic elections" than those in Belarus,
Tikhonov said.
Washingtons behavior was "boorish" and "made us wonder just how democratic
the elections are in the U.S.," he said.
He added that the deputies are particularly concerned about elections in
Texas and California where "the forces that vote for larger autonomy
suffer from pressure that violates their inalienable democratic rights."
The Washington-based League of Women Voters, one of the principal U.S.
election watchdogs, declined to comment on the resolution. The OSCE also
refused to comment.
But other observers expressed disbelief.
"They [the deputies] are quite mad," said Ariel Cohen, a Russia and Eurasia
expert with the Heritage Foundation in Washington.
"But having seen the list [of the deputies behind the resolution] it doesnt
surprise me," he said by telephone from Washington. "These are the people
who will gleefully vote to return Stalins national anthem ... to the
democratic Russia. These are the people who inhabit the world of their own,
the world of evil CIA spies and heroic Russian intelligence officers."
Yury Dzhibladze, president of the Moscow-based Center for the Development of
Democracy and Human Rights, said Russia had to prove itself democratic
before considering monitoring elections.
"How can a country that allows multitudinous violations during elections
honestly state anything like this?" said Dzhibladze.
"This project is reminiscent of the Soviet diplomacy of the 1960s and
1970s no, even of Stalins time," he said. "It may be funny, but it is
also sad that these politicians couldnt care less about Russias
reputation."
Fellow Duma lawmakers, who say the resolution wont pass, are giving it
little thought.
Yuly Rybakov, head of the Democratic Russia movement, called the resolution
"a mocking parade of idiots" and said the deputies behind it "simply wish to
travel to the States at their voters expense."
Asked whether he is concerned about the legitimacy of the U.S. presidential
elections, Rybakov chuckled and said: "Oh, I am extremely concerned about
it."
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