Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday he doesn’t rule out that the West may try to "shake the situation" and "provoke protests" in Russia ahead of the parliamentary elections.
"It is not ruled out that ahead of the elections to the State Duma we will see new attempts to shake, destabilize the situation, to provoke protests, preferably violent protests, as the West is in the habit of doing. A campaign for the non-recognition of our elections will probably follow," he said in his lecture delivered at the Far Eastern Federal University.
He stressed that such attempts would be thwarted, TASS reported.
