Russian woman accused of interfering in the mid-term elections in the US

A Russian woman who, according to investigators, is working for an oligarch close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, has been charged with attempting to intervene in the mid-term elections in the United States, which will be held in November 2018.

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In aboutThe indictment states that Elena Husyainova from St. Petersburg uses social media platforms to create thousands of social media and email accounts, which she uses as accounts for US residents, a woman allegedly uses them to “create and strengthen a split in social media”, writes NBC.

Special Prosecutor Robert Muller is not related to the presentation of these charges.

Among the topics that the woman raised on social networks using fake accounts were gun control, LGBT rights, the women's march and others. She also used specific events in her posts, including the Las Vegas shooting and the extremist march in Charlottesville, Virginia. The content of posts from her different accounts was sometimes the opposite - in order to increase controversy.

Among the politicians criticized in these accounts were John McCain, Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, Mitch McConnell, and former US President Barack Obama. In addition, in some posts there was criticism of Muller.

According to federal prosecutors, Khusyainova’s campaign to influence the elections created “political tensions by supporting radical groups” and “exacerbated the conflict between minorities and the rest of the population” of the United States.

“The strategic goal of this conspiracy, which continues to evolve today, is to sow discord in the U.S. political system and undermine faith in our democratic institutions,” said prosecutor Zachary Terwilliger.

According to the investigation, 44-year-old Khusyainova is the chief accountant in the Russian project Project Lakhta, which covers up attempts to intervene in the American elections. This project is funded by a Russian oligarch, whose company Concord Management was listed in Muller’s July indictment, as an organization that attempted to intervene in the US presidential election in 2016.

Concord Management owned by Yevgeny Prigogine, also known as “Putin’s cook,” he is closely associated with the Russian president.

In February 2018 years Muller accused Prigogine and 12 Russian citizens in an attempt to intervene in the presidential election of the year.

In June, Müller stated that the government believes that foreign “natural and legal persons” continue to “make attempts at intervention, such as those presented in his indictment.”

On October 19, the Department of Justice, the National Intelligence Agency, the FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security published a joint statement before the publication of the indictment against Husyainova, which states that “foreign interference in US elections is a threat to our democracy and preventing this interference is a federal priority government. "

“We are concerned about ongoing campaigns by Russia, China and other countries, including Iran, to undermine trust in democratic institutions and influence public sentiment and government policies. These events could also influence voter opinion and decision-making in 2018 and 2020,” the statement said.

At the same time, the statement clarified that at present they have no reason to believe that such interventions have affected the results of the vote in the 2016 year or may affect the 2018 year.

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