A new nationalist group in Russia believes their country has been occupied by the Americans, who have been drafting Russia's laws.

The Ultimate Conspiracy Theory

by Alexander Litoy

Events in Ukraine have set new standards for Russian patriotism. Rooting out and dealing with traitors is now the official line coming from Vladimir Putin. Yevgeny Fyodorov, a Duma Deputy and United Russia man, duly set up the National Liberation Movement (NLM) to garner popular support for the official introduction of censorship, the establishment of a government ideology, and an end to Russia's international obligations.

RUSSIA IS UNDER OCCUPATION

“We see that Putin is starting to muster his forces for a general attack, a revolt against the occupiers. Foreign agents, or anyone who might be one, have been purged and this is being done completely openly,” Fyodorov said at an NLM rally.

Fyodorov supporters come to street rallies with portraits of Stalin, Putin, and the black and orange ribbons that used to adorn the military Order of St. George but are now widely used as a patriotic symbol. They are convinced that their country has been occupied by the Americans, who, they say, are even drawing up Russian laws, for subsequent rubber-stamping by the Duma. According to the NLM, the Americans have been in control of United Russia, the ruling party, since 2003.

With confidence, Fyodorov states that “Duma deputies are simply officials in occupied territory. All the laws regulating the system of governance passed by the Duma have been drafted in the U.S.A.”

This belief, however, has not prevented Fyodorov from being a member of the United Russia General Council or from making 165 interventions in today's “colonial” State Duma and, since 2012, presenting more than 500 draft laws, with a pass rate in the lower chamber of more than 50 percent.

Fyodorov, in fact, is one of the longest-standing members of the Russian parliament. He was first elected in 1993; in 1999, he was a founder of the Medved [bear] bloc, which then became United Russia. Between 2006 and 2011, he headed the parliamentary Economic Policy Committee, having previously held high-ranking posts in the presidential administration and the finance atomic energy ministries.

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