MOSCOW — The reaction in Russia to allegations in a U.S. intelligence report about the Kremlin, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and reportedly lurid video footage can probably best be described as a Slavic shrug.
The unverified claims — the most explosive of which is that Russian intelligence secretly recorded sexual encounters involving Trump during a 2013 visit to Moscow — have been widely ridiculed by Russian officials, journalists and political analysts, including many usually critical of the government.
“It is dirty political technology,†said Evgeny Minchenko, a prominent political expert who runs a Moscow-based political consultancy.
“It is a clear fake,†said Russian …read more
Source: European Voice
