Putin and elections

As this article maintains, Putin claimed that US are meddling in Russian elections.

The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, today accused the US of deliberately seeking to destabilise the country's forthcoming elections.

The OSCE monitoring office announced it would not be sending representatives to observe Russia's parliamentary elections.

The OSCE - which includes the US, Canada, European countries and ex-Soviet republics - is widely regarded in the west as the most authoritative assessor of whether elections are conducted in line with democratic principles. When the OSCE announced its refusal to send observers, the US state department immediately criticised Russia's restrictions on foreign monitoring. But in turn Russian officials claimed the OSCE's monitoring was biased and tacitly supported pro-western opposition forces.

Is it really US fault?