Anonymous ID: 9b0516 July 22, 2018, 6:49 a.m. No.2240418   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>0447

>>2240365

 

Not the first time

 

In December 2011, Vladimir Putin came closer than heโ€™s ever been to losing his hold on power. His decision that year to run for a third term as Russiaโ€™s President had inspired a massive protest movement against him. Demonstrations calling for him to resign were attracting hundreds of thousands of people across the country. Some of his closest allies had defected to the opposition, causing a split in the Kremlin elites, and Russian state media had begun to warn of a revolution in the making.

 

At a crisis meeting with his advisers on Dec. 8 of that year, the Russian leader chose to lay the blame on one meddling foreign diplomat: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

 

โ€œShe set the tone for certain actors inside the country; she gave the signal,โ€ Putin said of Clinton at the time, accusing her of ordering the opposition movement into action like some kind of revolutionary sleeper cell. โ€œThey heard this signal and, with the support of the U.S. State Department, started actively doing their work.

Anonymous ID: 9b0516 July 22, 2018, 7:11 a.m. No.2240526   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>0556

>JULY 22, 2018 / 6:03 AM

 

>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Accused Russian agent Maria Butina had wider high-level contacts in Washington than previously known, taking part in 2015 meetings between a visiting Russian official and two senior officials at the U.S. Federal Reserve and Treasury Department.

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-butina-exclusive/exclusive-accused-russian-agent-butina-met-with-u-s-treasury-fed-officials-idUSKBN1KC0DC