Those who sincerely believe the conspiracy theory about a U.S.-funded color revolution in Russia may have felt relieved when the Foreign Ministry kicked out USAID, a major donor of the country’s nongovernmental organizations, on Oct. 1. But now, according to “Anatomy of a Protest 2,” aired last Friday on government-controlled NTV television, there is still reason to be concerned. The pseudo-documentary warns darkly that the revolution against the Kremlin is getting major financing from another source: Georgia.
The program showed hidden-camera footage in which a person resembling Givi Targamadze, the former head of the Georgian parliament‘s defense committee and a close ally of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, tells someone resembling opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov that he can secure up to $200 million to stage a rebellion in Kaliningrad or recruit ultranationalists to storm the Kremlin.
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