OREANDA-NEWS. Russia rejects FBI Director Christopher Ray’s allegations of interference with elections in the United States, and there is no reason for that. This was announced to journalists on Wednesday by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. “Our position is the same: there are no grounds for asserting that Russia tried or intends to interfere in the American elections, as the FBI head recently said”, the high-ranking diplomat said.

“At the same time, we will monitor the performance of Robert Muller”, he said, answering the question whether Moscow would monitor the performance of former US Special Prosecutor Robert Muller on the committee of the lower house of Congress on the topic of interference attributed to Russia in the American elections. how much what is said is different about what is in his report".

Earlier, FBI director Christopher Ray said that Russia is still trying to interfere in the elections in the United States. “Until we stop them, they will try to do it”, Ray said at a senate hearing, answering the question of whether Russia is interfering in US elections. The clarifying question of whether Russia is making such attempts so far, the director of the FBI answered in the affirmative. He didn't give details of such an “intervention”, and the senators didn't ask about it.

In April, US Special Prosecutor Robert Muller completed an investigation into the so-called "interference of the Russian Federation" in the elections in the United States in 2016 and concluded that such interference occurred through social networks and hacker attacks. As part of the investigation, charges were brought and sanctions imposed on a number of Russian individuals and companies. Russia denies these allegations.