13 Russian citizens indicted for "interference" in the US presidential election

The special prosecutor investigating for the Russiagate, Robert Mueller, has announced that a Grand federal jury has indicted 13 Russian citizens in the investigation of Moscow interference in the 2016 US presidential election.

"They consciously and intentionally conspired to defraud the United States with the intention of interfering with American political and electoral processes," reads the 37 pages of the provision.

According to the indictment, the defendants from the beginning of mid-2016 "supported the presidential campaign of the then candidate Donald J. Trump to harm Hillary Clinton". "An organization", known as Internet Research Agency LLC, "tried to conduct what he called an 'information war' against the United States of America" ​​through fake profiles "on social media." Around May 2014, the The organization's strategy planned to interfere with the 2016 US presidential election, with the stated goal of spreading distrust of candidates and the political system in general. "

The Minister of Justice, Rod Rosenstein, responsible for investigating the Russiagate, made it clear that there are no Americans currently investigated in the Moscow plot to interfere in the 2016 presidential elections, for which 13 Russians were indicted, and that the outcome final vote was not altered.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has branded the indictments as "absurd". Ministry spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, used the weapon of irony to comment on the news: "Is it possible that 13 people have interfered in the US elections? Thirteen against US secret services from multi-billion euro budgets? counterintelligence, against the latest developments in technology? Yes, it's absurd, "he wrote adding that" this is the reality of modern American politics ".