Senator Konstantin Kosachev, the Deputy Speaker of Russia’s Federation Council, denounced Biden’s Summit for Democracy as a call for “a unilateral world” controlled by the U.S. “The idea certainly was not to just review forces in the run-up to the upcoming fight for democracy. It was about convincing the world that those who oppose the unilateral world order actually oppose democracy. It is quite a simple manipulation but it serves an important ideological mission aimed at camouflaging the geopolitical causes of the current crisis as those related to values,” the Russian senator emphasized.
“It is foreign policy that was the focus rather than the domestic one, it was about being loyal to America,” Kosachev stressed. “It is a perfect signal to all the pseudo-democracies in the world: proclaim a policy guided by the West, vote the right way in the United Nations and you will be allowed to do whatever you will at home.” [https://tass.com/politics/1374209]
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said at an online briefing on Dec. 10.
