Sergey Lavrov, the foreign minister of Russia, has warned against US-led efforts to destabilize the country in advance of its 2024 presidential election as part of the US’s ongoing “vicious practices” of interfering in the internal affairs of other countries.
In an apparent allusion to the US-backed orange revolution in Ukraine in 2004, Lavrov stressed on Monday that “the forms of such interference are very diverse, including threats, blackmail, and the organization of “color revolutions.”
Speaking to a gathering of the country’s United Russia Party, he added that Washington had continued its ongoing “vicious practices of interfering in the internal affairs of sovereign nations.”.
The Western nations, he continued, “have openly set the goal of undermining domestic political stability in our country in the context of the 2024 presidential elections.”
Moreover, six years after “the bloody coup d’état in Ukraine that succeeded in 2014,” Russia’s top diplomat referred to the failed coup attempt in Belarus, emphasizing that “this obviously won’t be the last step.”
By using the “Kyiv regime” as a tool and arming the “Nazi activists in Ukraine,” Lavrov further claimed that US-led Western governments are waging a hybrid war against Moscow. He was alluding to the alleged presence of numerous neo-Nazi elements within the Ukrainian armed forces.
He continued, referring to the US-led NATO military alliance based in the Belgian capital, “This policy also fits into the joint efforts by Washington and Brussels to maintain global dominance by trying to punish everyone who pursues an independent foreign policy and rejects the infamous rule-based order.
Lavrov emphasized that “the Americans do not hide their intention to do everything they can to contain China as well.”
The Russian foreign minister stressed that the emerging trend is to strengthen multi-polarity as new decision-making powers are thriving throughout Eurasia, the Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America based on the “natural, inalienable right of peoples to determine their own destiny.”
While doing so, the Washington establishment and the mainstream media in the US have repeatedly accused Russia and other nations, including Iran, of interfering in the country’s congressional and presidential elections.
International observers and press reports, however, have consistently highlighted Washington’s overt efforts to influence and meddle in the elections of many countries around the world – through funding opposition groups, launching media campaigns against governments, and even plotting coups and armed insurgencies – especially in countries that oppose US policies and interference in their internal affairs, such as Venezuela, Nicaragua, Peru, Iran, Georgia, Pakistan, and even south africa.
