Russian President Vladimir Putin still sees no need to congratulate Joe Biden on his victory in the U.S. election, said Putin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov during a press briefing. According to Peskov, Donald Trump’s decision to launch a formal transfer of power to the new administration was “not enough” for Putin to acknowledge Biden’s victory. “You know that the review and

Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman has slammed The New York Times’ job posting for a Russia correspondent, criticizing it for “political bias” and “Russophobia.” In its description for the job posted early last week, The New York Times lists its requirements for an ideal candidate along with a description of the job’s location, “Vladimir Putin’s Russia.”  “It sends out hit squads

Disinformation often mirrors the news stream. Therefore, it might not be surprising this week’s disinformation heavily features events in the United States. Among the frequent targets: Joe Biden’s policy towards Russia, Covid-19 and alleged plans of the US establishment to abuse the pandemic and rig the US presidential elections. Please, fasten your seatbelts. One narrative claims Joe Biden, when inaugurated,

Russia will not yet recognize Joe Biden as President-elect of the United States, the Kremlin said Monday as world leaders rushed to congratulate the Democratic Party challenger after U.S. television networks declared him the winner. “We believe it’s correct to wait for the official results of the elections to be announced,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters during a phone

Russia’s elections chief said Monday that voting by mail in the U.S. presidential election had paved the way for massive voter fraud, echoing rhetoric from the campaign of Donald Trump.  Ella Pamfilova, the head of Russia’s elections commission, said she had carefully studied mail-in voting in the United States and found the process vulnerable to fraud. “For me, the conclusion

Article by: Pavel Felgenhauer, The Jamestown Foundation Source: The Jamestown Foundation Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 17 Issue: 157 Edited by: A. N. Four years ago, in November 2016, Donald Trump’s victory in the United States presidential election was celebrated in Moscow. The news of Hillary Clinton conceding was greeted with spontaneous applause by the deputies of the Kremlin-controlled State

Paul A Goble If Vladimir Putin was pleased with the results of the 2016 US presidential election in which his operatives intervened, he is anything but by both the competitiveness of the race in 2020 and perhaps even more of the careful counting of votes that is gradually turning the result against the incumbent, Lev Shlosberg says. The Kremlin’s propaganda

Russian state media’s first comments on the outcome of the US Presidential election express deep disappointment. The head of the state broadcaster RT, Margarita Simonyan, questioned(opens in a new tab) whether Russia at all should recognise the legitimacy of the election: Neither free, nor fair Russian state media have, as EUvsDisinfo reported(opens in a new tab), shown a strong pro-Trump

Large-scale mail-in voting and late results in the 2020 U.S. presidential election could raise concerns over the transparency and legitimacy of the voting process, a senior Russian election official has said. Nearly 100 million Americans have already voted early, both in person and by mail, as the coronavirus pandemic has upended the traditional approach to Election Day. President Donald Trump

Russian state-controlled media outlets and their affiliates have a clear and persuasive bias in favour of current US President Donald Trump over former US Vice President Joe Biden. Prior to the US presidential elections on November 3, the primary narrative is that a second Trump term will be good for the United States and US-Russia relations, while a Biden administration