Russia has blasted widespread allegations that it interfered in this past weekend’s parliamentary elections in Georgia. Instead, the Kremlin has turned the same accusation on the West.

“We strongly reject these accusations. There was no intervention. These accusations are completely unsubstantiated,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday.

“There are attempts to interfere, but not from Russia’s side,” Peskov emphasized. “A huge number of forces from European countries and various European institutions have tried to influence the outcome of the vote. No one was even hiding this, these were public statements.”

As we reviewed earlier:

In Georgia, the biggest ruling (and Kremlin-friendly) party Georgian Dream won 54% of the votes, according to the election commission. Its leader declared victory whilst the Georgian President, who is a supporter of greater EU-ties but lacks political power, called it a “Russian-style election”. At face value, it seems that Europe should not expect much rapprochement from the country any time soon.