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2019-10-01 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
US targets two Russians over alleged attempts to sway 2018 midterm elections
[PRESSTV] The administration of US President Donald Trump
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has imposed sanctions on two Russian nationals over accusations of attempting to interfere in the 2018 US midterm elections.

The US Treasury Department said in a statement on Monday that it had blacklisted Igor Nesterov, 34, and Denis Kuzmin, 28, over links to the Internet Research Agency, an organization that US authorities claimed was tasked with spreading disinformation and false news.

"Today, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action against Russian actors that attempted to influence the 2018 US midterm elections, though there was no indication that foreign actors were able to compromise election infrastructure that would have prevented voting, changed vote counts, or disrupted the tallying of votes," the statement said.

"This Administration will work tirelessly to safeguard our electoral process, and will aggressively pursue any other foreign actor that attempts to interfere in the 2020 elections," it added.

The Internet Research Agency was accused in a report by former US special counsel Robert Mueller of using social media to interfere in the 2016 US presidential election.

Posted by Fred 2019-10-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top










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