The West is trying to interfere in our elections, Russia moans

A Kremlin task force that aims to prevent external interference claimed Wednesday that the West is preparing to interfere in Russia’s 2026 federal parliamentary election.

“The commission records the active preparation of Western countries to organize attempts to interfere in the elections to the State Duma in 2026,” said the document, cited by Russian state news agency TASS.

“The United States and its satellites have already made test attempts to interfere in the Russian elections in 2024,” it added.

In reality, Moscow tried to influence Romania’s presidential election last year in favor of pro-Russian independent Călin Georgescu, and did the same in a presidential election and EU accession referendum organized by Moldova in October.

Additionally, in last year’s sham Russian presidential election, held without authentic political opposition, President Vladimir Putin won with 87 percent of the vote.

United Russia, Putin’s ruling party, has been accused of vote-rigging to maintain its tight grip on power since 2001, with Putin serving as either president or prime minister for the whole period.