{"id":13058,"date":"2018-02-17T03:45:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T03:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=13058"},"modified":"2018-02-17T03:45:08","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T03:45:08","slug":"us-indictment-of-russian-nationals-over-us-election-absurd-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/us-indictment-of-russian-nationals-over-us-election-absurd-moscow\/","title":{"rendered":"US indictment of Russian nationals over US election \u2018absurd\u2019: Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Russia has flatly dismissed as \u201cabsurd\u201d the indictment of 13 Russian nationals by the US Justice Department for allegedly interfering in the 2016 US presidential election.<\/p>\n

\u201cThirteen people interfered in the US elections? Thirteen people against billions budgets of special agencies? Against intelligence and counter-espionage, against the newest technologies? Absurd? \u2013 Yes,<\/em>\u201d\u00a0wrote Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova in a Facebook post on Friday.<\/p>\n

She further said\u00a0that the indictment manifests the \u201cmodern American political reality,\u201d adding jokingly\u00a0that the number 13 had been chosen intentionally due to its negative associations.<\/p>\n

Zakharova\u2019s comments came shortly after US Justice Department’s Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating the alleged Russian meddling, indicted<\/a> 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities accused of interfering in the US elections and political processes.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said supporting US President Donald Trump had never been an official Russian policy, even if some Russians did express their support for the new American leader.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a pity that under Donald Trump, for more than a year of his presidency, our relations have not improved compared to the period of the Democratic administration. Even worsened to a certain extent<\/em>,\u201d Lavrov further said in an interview with Euronews.<\/p>\n

In late 2016, Washington alleged that Russia had influenced the US presidential election in November that year to help now-incumbent Trump get elected, an allegation that Russia strongly denied.\u00a0Back then, the outgoing administration of President Barack Obama threatened that the US would respond to the alleged Russian meddling \u201cat the time and place” of its\u00a0choosing.<\/p>\n

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PressTV-Trump tweets \u2018no collusion\u2019 with Russia<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Donald Trump says his campaign engaged in \u201cno collusion\u201d with Russia after a new indictment accuses Russians of interference in US election.<\/p><\/div>\n

Back in November last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin strongly rejected as “fantasies” claims that Moscow interfered in the 2016 US presidential election in favor of Trump. The Russian leader also in December renewed Russia’s rejection of the same accusations, saying the claims were nothing more than \u201cespionage mania.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are currently multiple investigations by US security agencies into the case.<\/p>\n

Trump himself has repeatedly told Americans that the allegations of collusion between his campaign and Russia were not true. In his latest reaction to the allegation, Trump said on Friday that \u201cthe results of the election were not impacted. The Trump campaign did nothing wrong – no collusion!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Russia has flatly dismissed as \u201cabsurd\u201d the indictment of 13 Russian nationals by the US Justice Department for allegedly interfering in the 2016 US presidential election. \u201cThirteen people interfered in the US elections? Thirteen people against billions budgets of special agencies? Against intelligence and counter-espionage, against the newest technologies? Absurd? \u2013 Yes,\u201d\u00a0wrote Russian Foreign Ministry …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13060,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13058\/revisions\/13060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}