Putin accuses U.S. of instigating anti-Government protests in Russia

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin today accused United States of instigating the unrest in Russia to question the cleaning of the parliamentary elections last Sunday.

"Saw the first reaction of our American partners." First made the Secretary of State was to say that (elections) had not been fair nor clean, and that who still had in his possession the report of the observers from ODIHR (Office for democratic institutions and human rights) ", said Putin.

Russian Prime Minister stepped in from the statements of Hillary Clinton, who declared last Tuesday, in allusion to the Russians, elections that "the elections are not free nor fair" and undermine the confidence of citizens in their institutions.

American policy "marked the pattern, gave the signal to some of our characters in the country." They heard the signal, and supported by the Department of State States u000a"Together, began to work actively," said Putin at a meeting with the members of the governing people's front of Russia.

Prime Minister asserted that Russia must defend its sovereignty and think about how to improve legislation and intensify the responsibility for "those who fulfilled the tasks posed by a foreign State in order to influence internal political processes".

According to Putin, Russia "is and will remain a major nuclear power, which leads to some fears of our partners".

Also said that the sending of money from abroad seemed "normal" to support humanitarian projects, but he catalogued of unacceptable investment of foreign money in processes election.

Also stressed that from abroad try to destabilize Russia "so let us not forget who are the owners of the planet and who have in their hands the levers of influence".

On the other hand, Putin refrained from u000aevaluate the Russian parliamentary elections last Sunday, the results gave the victory to government formation United Russia (UK) and provoked mass protests in the country of course fraud.

From Brussels, Hillary Clinton today reiterated the concern for "how these elections were held" legislative Russia.

"We consider that these concerns are justified," insisted.

While the Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, said today in Prague, where it is on an official visit, which is not seen "nothing special" in protests in Russia which are "sample of democracy".

Before, stated that the legislative elections were fair.

"I can express my feelings: Russia Unida got exactly what has, neither more nor less, and in this sense, the elections were fair, just and democratic", stressed the head of the Kremlin nothing more announcing of the results of the vote.

According to the u000aofficers, counted 99.9% of the votes, RU won 49.3% of the ballots, which is 238 of the 450 seats in the Duma, the lower House of Parliament Russian.

All the opposition sectors have been unanimous in denouncing serious irregularities in the elections Sunday.

Guennadi Zyuganov, the leader of the Communist Party, the second most voted force, denounced the election results were falsified for the ruling party.

According to this opposition, leader United Russia was attributed to a 15% more votes that won at the ballot box.

The results of the legislative elections threw fuel to the fire of the popular dissent which had grown by numerous cases of corruption and permissiveness by officials of the United Kingdom.

Thousands of people took to the streets to call for fair elections and express their rejection of the results of the election legislation of the last Sunday.

More than one thousand of u000aopponents have been arrested since the election day during protests against the fraud

Meanwhile, about 30,000 Facebook users confirm that they will come next Saturday at a demonstration near the Kremlin.

Parliamentary Assembly the of the Council of Europe has today appealed to the Russian authorities "immediate" of all the protesters release detainees.

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