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March 4th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“Going to a protest is important but the only way we can change something
and bring the fair elections that we are asking for is by going yourself to
the polling station and making sure that there are no falsifications.”
Miss Zatuliveter – who lived in Britain for five years – was still in London
when the first protests broke out after Vladimir Putin’s allies crudely
fixed a parliamentary election in favour of his party, United Russia, on
December 4.
“I never followed Russian politics when I was in the UK, simply because
it was too boring for me, nothing was happening, it was all predictable,”
she explained as she distributed leaflets at a meeting point of the “Citizen
Observer” group inside Moscow’s Central Telegraph building on Friday.
“But the day after the Duma election I just woke up and thought, ‘This
has to stop. I cannot stand it any longer. It’s absolutely unacceptable.'”
The former Bradford University student joined a protest of expat Russians in
London and then several mass demonstrations in Russia after returning to the
country in December, having failing to find a new job in the UK.
On Sunday she will act as an electoral commission member with advisory powers
– a step above an ordinary observer – at a polling station in
Novoslobodskaya, a northern district of Moscow. She expects fraud to be
widespread and hopes that detecting it will help prevent Putin getting the
50% needed to win outright, forcing him to a second round with his closest
challenger.
“That would be a victory of sorts,” she said. “In the beginning
we protested against electoral fraud but then our anger focused on Putin
because he treated us and our complaints with such contempt.”
Miss Zatuliveter’s attitudes are in stark contrast to those of real Russian
spy, Anna Chapman, who was deported to Moscow in 2010 after being captured
in the United States and who became an adviser to a pro-Kremlin youth group.
While Chapman became a minor celebrity, met Mr Putin and was awarded a state
medal, Miss Zatuliveter’s return went almost unnoticed.
She grew up in the North Caucasus region on Russia’s border with Georgia but
wants to live in Moscow and has been staying at friends’ apartments in the
city and living modestly while she looks for work.
“I am not special,” she said. “I am one of many thousands of
people who simply want to protect their rights. We need an independent
judiciary, we need MPs who people voted for, we need equality and
opportunity, not favours for a privileged elite. Putin can’t provide these
things. His time is over, he’s out of touch.”
Miss Zatuliveter says her experience with Britain’s secret services make her
sceptical about the sudden appearance last week of an alleged plot to
assassinate to Mr Putin, which many observer saw as a ploy to shore up the
prime minister’s “Fortress Russia” rhetoric.
“MI5 leaked false information against me after my appeal hearing was over
and as the judges were considering their decision,” she says. “It
looks like the Russian security services were equally careful with their
timing.”
The four weak candidates facing Mr Putin are all thought to have received some
form of approval from him, and Mr Prokhorov, the billionaire tycoon, is
frequently called a “Kremlin project” to split the liberal
electorate.
Miss Zatuliveter cannot take part in the election because she did not travel
to her home town in time to pick up an absentee ballot.
“If I could, I would vote for Prokhorov on condition that he admit the
terms of his deal with Putin,” she said. “Which, of course, he
never will.”
As for Alexei Navalny, the anti-corruption blogger who is the most popular of
the opposition leaders, Miss Zatuliveter says: “I don’t like him. How
could I like him? I’m from the Caucasus.”
Mr Navalny has been criticised for fuelling anti-immigrant feeling by
attending rallies in support of ethnic Russians and for backing an
initiative called “Enough With Feeding the Caucasus”.
“Russia cannot have a nationalist in charge,” says Miss Zatuliveter.
“When you go out in the morning in winter and the road in front of your
house is already clear of snow, there’s a reason: it’s because the Tajik
street sweepers have already cleaned it, for pennies.
“And if they weren’t here, how many Russians would do that job? Saying
they should go home is like screaming that Poles should leave the UK. In
fact these people often do work that no one else wants and they have every
right to stay.”
In the future, Miss Zatuliveter says she would vote for the environmental
campaigner Yevgeniya Chirikova, one of the protest coordinators, if
Chirikova decided to put herself forward.
“We could do with a woman president,” she said. “Women don’t
take so many bribes.”
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