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Putin slams foreign governments for sponsoring opposition Reuters MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin, using Cold War rhetoric, accused foreign governments on Wednesday of sponsoring his opponents in next month's election to weaken Russia and carry out "dirty tricks" against it. Putin warned that victory for his United Russia party in the December 2 parliamentary election was the only guarantee that the chaos that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s would not return. "Unfortunately there are still those people in our country who still slink through foreign embassies ... who count on the support of foreign funds and governments but not the support of their own people," Putin told thousands of cheering supporters at a raucous pro-Kremlin rally.
These political enemies, he added, wanted to divide Russia. "They need a weak and feeble state. They need a disorganized and disoriented society, a split society, so that they can carry out their dirty tricks behind its back." Thousands of young activists at the U.S.-style election rally chanted "Russia!" as Putin, dressed in a dark suit and black polo-neck sweater, boasted of soaring economic growth and strengthening the armed forces. In his harshest public attack on opposition parties to date, Putin said his political enemies had "learned a bit from Western specialists, did a bit of training in neighboring republics and will now come to try to carry out provocations". The Kremlin has constantly evoked the specter of pro-Western mass protests, like those that ushered in new governments in neighboring Georgia and Ukraine, as a fate to be avoided. With Soviet-era songs blaring, the mostly young crowd of around 5,000 waved flags and chanted support for the 55-year-old leader, a former KGB spy who is by far Russia's most popular politician after eight years of strong economic growth.
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