Russia is convinced that the possible sanctions against Moscow relating to the election of the President of the United States, are «a direct and obvious attempt» to interfere in their own presidential elections to be held in March.
Today, January 29, the U.S. Treasury Department must send Congress a list of Russian businessmen and to give details about their links with the President of Russia Vladimir Putin.
«We believe that this is a direct and obvious attempt to perform certain actions that will coincide with our elections and pouliot on them», — said the press Secretary of the Kremlin Dmitry Peskov.
As CNN reports, the result of the election of the Russian President in fact is obvious: due to the tight restrictions on political opponents of the regime, no one doubts that he will win the current head of state Vladimir Putin. Sands also considers that the victory of President apparent for other reasons.
«Putin’s popularity reaches far beyond Russia, and I don’t think anyone can doubt that Putin is the absolute leader of public opinion, the absolute leader of the political Olympus,» — said the representative of the Kremlin, commenting on the strike, which took place yesterday throughout Russia.
One of the leaders of the Russian opposition Alexei Navalny organized protests, which called on Russians not to go to the polls in 2018, as he predicted, the results of the vote will be rigged. The politician was briefly a member of the strike organized by them in Moscow. Navalny was arrested almost immediately as he began the procession along with the crowd through the Central streets of the capital.
