“We see that foreign intelligence services are seeking to bolster their efforts on the Russian front,” Putin warned.
While Russian influence and meddling in the United States, as well as in other countries, remains a pressing concern for western lawmakers, Vladimir Putin has voiced his own warnings about similar foreign efforts in his country.
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the annual Federal Security Service meeting in Moscow, on March 6. Russian meddling in the U.S., as well as in other countries, remains a pressing concern for western lawmakers, while Vladimir Putin has voiced his own warnings about similar foreign efforts in Russia. ALEXEI DRUZHININ/AFP/Getty Images
Special counsel Robert Mueller has been tasked with investigating Russia’s efforts and, in particular, whether there was any collusion between members of Trump’s 2016 campaign team and Moscow. Six close associates of the president have been indicted, convicted or pleaded guilty to charges connected to the ongoing probe. But Trump and Russia have consistently denied any conspiracy.
“As many as 150,000 Russian linked Twitter accounts were tweeting about Brexit. We know that Russia’s media outlets here in the U.K., [Russian media] RT and Sputnik, offered ‘systematically one-sided coverage’ of the referendum,” Tom Watson, the deputy leader of the opposition Labour Party, wrote in an October letter to British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, calling for a “Mueller-style public inquiry” into Russian interference.
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