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The US refusal to allow Russian diplomats to the polls can be explained by the fact that the US presidential election will be “not so open and not at all transparent”, said the Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on constitutional legislation Andrey Klishas.
Earlier official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said that the FBI has a direct pressure on the Russian diplomats in order to allow them to polling stations on elections of the President of the United States. One of the cases occurred in Houston when the FBI agents blocked the car of an employee of the Consulate General of the Russian Federation. Also according to the Russian foreign Ministry, U.S. state Department memo recommended that the Russian representatives “themselves not to come to the polling stations”.
“It’s hard to understand why a “model” democracy in the world is so afraid of Russian observers and passed to open threats to Russian diplomats. It is possible that on closer examination the American elections are not so open and not transparent, as we often like to say those who put the example of the USA,” Klishas told RIA Novosti.
According to him, despite the fact that the United States would seem to interested in sharing with everyone in the world for its “best practices”, this is not happening.
“To impose their version of democracy America is ready for the world, even with the bombing, and to allow for the polling stations of the Russian diplomats somehow ashamed,” said the Senator.