Nearly two dozen overseas organizations operating in Russia attempted to influence the results of the country’s parliamentary elections held over the weekend, a leading lawmaker has claimed, promising to take action against them.
In a statement issued shortly after polls closed early on Monday morning, Vasily Piskarev, the head of a State Duma commission investigating foreign interference in Russia’s domestic affairs, said that there had been efforts to sway the vote from abroad. According to him, there had been a pre-planned campaign “to prompt people and shape their choices imposed on Russians during the voting.”
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