Until there are facts on election meddling, it’s all just blather – Lavrov on Mueller indictment
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has again dismissed claims of Russian meddling in the US election, saying that until facts are presented by Washington, they are nothing but “blather.”
“Until we see facts, everything else will be just blather,” Lavrov said while speaking at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Saturday. When asked to comment on the indictment of Russian nationals and companies in the US over alleged meddling in the 2016 US election, the foreign minister said: “You know, I have no reaction at all because one can publish anything he wants. We see how accusations, statements, statements are multiplying.”
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On Friday, a US federal grand jury indicted 13 Russian nationals and three entities accused of interfering in the 2016 election and political processes. According to the indictment, those people were “supporting the presidential campaign of then-candidate Donald J. Trump… and disparaging Hillary Clinton” as they staged political rallies and bought political advertising, while posing as grassroots entities.
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