Kremlin says US Senate report ‘unfounded’

MOSCOW: Russia yesterday denounced a US Senate report which accused the Kremlin of conducting disinformation campaigns in attempts to undermine democracies, calling it the latest “unfounded” claim, reports AFP. A report released by the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations committee, Ben Cardin, detailed what it called “malign influence operations” of the Kremlin, including meddling in the 2016 US election.

“We can only express our dismay with this continuing campaign and once again remind that these fears, these accusations against our country about meddling, still have no basis and are absolutely unfounded,” President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists.

He called the allegations reflective of an “obsessive idea” in Washington that can harm “not just US-Russian bilateral relations but the US itself.”

Kremlin says US Senate report unfounded

MOSCOW: Russia yesterday denounced a US Senate report which accused the Kremlin of conducting disinformation campaigns in attempts to undermine democracies, calling it the latest unfounded claim, reports AFP. A report released by the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations committee, Ben Cardin, detailed what it called malign influence operations of the Kremlin, including meddling in the 2016 US election. We can only express our dismay with this continuing campaign and once again remind that these fears, these accusations against our country about meddling, still have no basis and are absolutely unfounded, President Vladimir Putins spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists. He called the allegations reflective of an obsessive idea in Washington that can harm not just US-Russian bilateral relations but the US itself.