Lavrov: The West is a master of meddling in other people’s elections

The Russian Foreign Minister emphasized today (Thursday) that the issue of elections in Ukraine raises the question of how the West will “coordinate” them.
According to RCO News Agency, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a meeting that US Preside Donald Trump’s statemes regarding the necessity of holding elections in Ukraine raises the question of how the West will “coordinate” them if they are held.
“Recely, US Preside Donald Trump, commeing on the situation in Ukraine, advised (Preside Volodymyr) Zelensky not to ‘trample’ on democracy and hold elections anyway,” Lavrov said at a United Russia party meeting. “How this can be organized and how the West will coordinate these elections, if they happen, is another matter.”
Sergey Lavrov also said that the West actively ierferes in the elections of other couries and added that the “electoral neo-colonialism” of the West is a threat to the majority of couries in the world.
The Russian foreign minister also called the fact that the United States no longer was such “democracy” as understood in Europe a serious indicator.
“The fact that the United States no longer was democracy as it is understood in Europe is a serious indicator,” Lavrov said at the meeting of the United Russia party, according to RIA Novosti.
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