Posted on 11/05/2005 7:16:47 PM PST by jb6
WASHINGTON, November 5 (RIA Novosti, Arkady Orlov) - The U.S. House of Representatives approved November 4 a budget bill providing in particular $4 million for the development of political parties in Russia. Earlier this year, President Vladimir Putin spoke out against foreign funding for political organizations, which, according to him, raised concern about outside political interference.
"We are against the outside financing of political activity in Russia. I am vehemently opposed to it," Putin said in July 2005, addressing the Council for Assisting the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights Institutions. "No self-respecting state tolerates that and neither will we."
In its annual ratings of political rights and civil liberties, Freedom House downgraded Russia in December 2004 from "partly free" to "not free."
You're right. I thought that we said the same thing about Clintoon/China. Now I'm really confused.
This is a good place to start cutting back on things to help pay for hurricane rebuilding.
We must have more money than we know what to do with. How about a tax cut for use working folks?
Where the hell is this in our constitution?
What's interesting is that most of this money gets funneled into the Freedom House and other Democratic Party organizations and Soros Open Societies and it's all tax payer paid for, of course.
This is like waiving a red flag in front of a bull.
I can't imagine what the US Congress is thinking.
How would we like it, if foreign countries would allocate money to fund US political parties?!
So, will the honorable Vlad reject these monies? Or, is he powerless to do so?
These monies are going to Vlad, they're going to the Oligarch parties and other "liberal" groups that got voted out by the people in the 2005 Duma elections. Those are the folks that used to form the Friends of Gore club.
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My question also...
I would NOT want any money from other countries used in our elections...
The article said the money was for "development of political parties"...so does that mean to start a two-party system..but then to stay out of who runs???
I don't get it...
Russia has about six parties in the Duma right now and a bunch of the Yeltsin oligarchial parties that lost big time (after raping the country for 8 years). I believe this money will flow to them, sorta another try at another color revolution.
Check this out...I thought you might be interested.
Am I to assume you meant to say "These monies are NOT going to Vlad...?"
I just think that no good can come of this...it may not do any harm...but it is a waste of money..and IMHO, not good PR while President Bush is having to fight the media and dems about whether he is too involved overseas.
Yes, they're not, they're going to opposition parties that are pro-EU, which means, they're going to the old Yeltsin buddies who raped that country for 8 years and were shown the door by the people last elections.
...and Vladimir is powerless to stop this flow of influence?
About on the same level as the Chinese influence (er bribery) of the Clinton administration and Clinton's bribery of the Israeli elections that brought the traitor Barak to power.
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