Putin’s Power Play Game

Michael Lucas Editor

In the newspaper of the Slav Committee of the Czech Republic “Slavjanska Vzajemnost” there was published a short analysis of the Russian presidential election held last month plus the political satire cartoon as pictured on the NSC. The analyses concluded that Mr. Medvedev was “the chosen one” by Putin already, because the present Russian ruling class had already concurred on Mr. Medvedev and he had the backing of the Russian Orthodox Church as well.

Besides publishing just some clips of Western capitalist press attitude, we also publish the political cartoon about this so-called election that was published in Canada in the Toronto newspaper Toronto Daily Star.

Let the Western capitalist press comment – since NSC readers know our position on this election farce.

* Putin is not stepping down; he is becoming the “power behind the throne” as Prime Minister. Mr. Putin has also amassed a great fortune during his term as President of Russia, amounting to over $40 BILLION US DOLLARS in offshore banks, according to the published interview by the Russian political scientist, Stanislav Belkovsky which he gave to the German newspaper “DIE WELT”. It turns out that Mr. Putin is much richer than any of the wealthiest Russian Oligarchs. Where did that money come from?

Therefore it is naïve for Putin and now Mr. Medvedev to proclaim that they are fighting and will fight “the rampant corruption in Russia.”

* There were 4 other candidates but most of them did not have the 200,000 Euros to spend on their election campaign.

* There was cheating, irregularities, names left off the election lists, threats, physical assaults and cheating in the counting of votes –this is according to even the New York Times, Washington Post, Toronto Star. Associated Press, The Economist and the expose in many of the Russian newspapers and parties, which saw with their own eyes the fallacy of this “presidential election.”

* The most obvious fallacy and unbelievable put-up-lie was a photo by Putin’s media and published in the capitalist press of a Russian elderly woman in far away village in Siberia, living in squalor, with two goats in her room sharing the food plate and Putin’s controlled media was there to photograph that this woman was casting her vote for Medvedev. They even had an official Ballot Box on the floor, together with the two goats.

If you are going to tell us that this was just by chance photograph – well you are as guilty of lying as was Putin and his protégé Medvedev.