MOSCOW, January 16. /TASS/. Distortions in the US electoral system have in fact caused the word "consensus" to disappear from the vocabulary of the country’s political establishment, the deputy chief of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, wrote in his op-ed published by tass.com on Saturday.

In his article he mentioned multiple violations and disputes in the practice of holding US elections in 2000, 2016 and 2020.

"The enormous costs associated with such a voting system have by now practically erased the word ‘consensus’ from the vocabulary of the American political elite," Medvedev said. "Just recently, no one could imagine - not even in their worst nightmares - that all these partisan differences would lead to the storming of the Capitol, whose first foundation stone was laid by the first US president, George Washington."

"The attack carried out by pro-Trump protesters while the Congress was counting votes not only appalled national governments all over the world but provoked bloodshed in the country, which was only recently seen by many as the gold standard of democracy," Medvedev stressed.

He remarked "it was hard to believe that the events resembling so much Ukraine's Maidan and other color revolutions that unfolded in recent years across a wide range of countries, including those in the post-Soviet space, were broadcasted live from the United States all over the world."