Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Alexander Grushko considered “zero” the importance of the report of the Bureau of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organization for Safety and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on the elections to the State Duma. He said this in an interview with “Kommersant”.
“How can we seriously take a report from the people who were not here? It would be absurd. This will be a document from the genre:” I did not read such an author, but what I have to say about this … “. In other words, the value of this report will be zero “, – said the deputy minister
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He also reminded that Russia earlier received the “biggest observation missions of the Bureau”, and in recent years, Moscow managed to ensure that there are quite large missions in some countries to the west of Vienna. “For example, the Bureau originally planned to send to the last year’s presidential elections in the United States up to 500 people, but in the end due to the pandemic was limited to 47, that has not prevented him to prepare a report on the results of the elections, by the way, is very critical.”, – assured Grushko.
Earlier, First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council (FC) of the International Affairs Vladimir Jabbarov said that the West continues to try to intervene in the preparation and conduct of elections to the State Duma. “The Commission records incessant attempts to intervene in the course of the parliamentary election campaign in Russia from a number of OSCE member countries,” said Senator.