KC: Russian human rights activists call on West not to recognize illegitimate presidency of Putin

A former Soviet dissident and human rights activist Sergei Kovalev, the head of Russian Government Commission on Human Rights under Yeltsin between 1993 and 1996, said in an interview with a Russian paperMoscow News that upcoming Putin’s “presidential polls” would be illegali and illegitimate, and urged the West not to recognize Putin as the Russian president.

“The government relies on cynicism developed by it. Lying and fraud give birth only to yet another fraud. And cynicism creates cynicism in square.

The situation is global. We live in the world experiencing the same crisis of morality. Because the main universal value in this world is the Protocol. Whatever happened on March 4, whatever control is exercised, the election is still legitimate.

If only because one of the candidates, Putin, can claim that he will not participate in the TV debates. Imagine Obama saying he’s not going to participate in pre-election debates – it will be an end for him, he will be no more serious candidate.

Let’s look at the March 4 polls. Will any of the present Western politicians, prime ministers or presidents refrain from congratulating Putin? Not one will. Because of the Protocol. It is the Protocol which is the main universal value in modern world. That is a striking evidence of the moral and historical crisis that we are experiencing”.

Department of Monitoring
Kavkaz Center