Clutching a cobbler’s tool, Roman Gadayev defiantly lashed out against accusations that Russia meddled in the U.S. election to sway the vote to Donald Trump.
“Simply impossible,” said the Kazakhstan native who runs a shoe repair shop near the Brighton Beach boardwalk. “This is something that only uneducated people can buy into.”
Most Russian-speaking expatriates interviewed by The Associated Press this past week in Brooklyn’s heavily ex-Soviet enclaves shrugged off a CIA assessment that Russia hacked the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton’s campaign boss to help Trump, portraying it as nothing more than political sour grapes.
“Russia has nothing to do with this,” …read more
Source: Voice of America
