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The corruption scandal that shook the International Football Federation (FIFA) awakens distrust of Moscow, who suspects the US to feed black designs against him by preventing the re-election of Joseph Blatter, a candidate for his own succession to the head of the organization and supporter of the organization displayed by Russia in the 2018 World Cup.
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” Blatter had every chance of being re-elected, and we know what pressure was exerted on him to prevent the holding of the World Cup in Russia “, said President Vladimir Putin, according to comments reported on the website of the Russian presidency Thursday, May 28 “Blatter he continued, believes that sport should have a positive impact on policy and serve as a basis for dialogue and reconciliation. “ Obviously, for the Kremlin chief, bilateral relations between Moscow and Washington, very degraded since the conflict in Ukraine, are still far
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Mr. Putin did in fact “no doubts” : the questioning of several officials of FIFA, arrested in Switzerland and subject to an extradition request from the United States, is a more American interference in world affairs in general and in particular the Russian orbit.
“These arrests , said the head of the Russian state, look very strange in that they were made at the request of the United States (…) but these officials are not US citizens and if something happened, it did not take place on their territory. “ The procedure initiated, ” even assuming that the United States has a right to extradition “, therefore the eyes of Putin a ” violation “ gross international rules and “another blatant attempt to extend its jurisdiction to other States’ .
support his overruns on US, Putin was stirred in stride the case of Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee computer refuge in Russia after revealing mass surveillance programs: “We know the US position regarding a former employee of the special services, member of the National Security Agency, who unveiled the practice of illegal actions of the United States worldwide, including listening to Foreign leaders (…) Everybody talks about it, including in Europe, but nobody wants to give him asylum … “
Snowden, the Russian president is then passed the situation of the Australian Julian Assange behind the disclosure of US diplomatic cables on WikiLeaks, “forced to hide in a foreign embassy for some years.” “Why do I remember these stories? he concluded. Because our partners are using illegal methods to achieve their own selfish ends, pursuing people. I do not exclude that in the case of FIFA, it is the same. “
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In unison President , Russian media denounce, through the scandal that hit FIFA targeted offensive, forgetting Qatar designated as the host country of the World in 2022. “A conspiracy against Russia? “ was thus questioned on Wednesday evening weekly Trud on its website.
The tone rises in Russia, where one never fails criticize the former Cold War adversary, nor to attribute to the White House the will to destabilize the Russian sphere of influence, even Russia itself, through “color revolutions”. On Thursday, the President of the Russian Commission to Fight against Corruption, Kirill Kabanov, is in is in turn mixed, suggesting that the case of FIFA would be used for political purposes: “This could play against Russia and the 2018 World Cup, “ he said.
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