U.S. ELECTION: WHAT IS RUSSIA COUNTING ON?

SOURCE: KREMLIN.RU

4 November 2020 U.S. ELECTION: WHAT IS RUSSIA COUNTING ON?

The longer it takes to announce the winner of the U.S. presidential runoff, the better it looks from Moscow’s point of view – as Russia is setting its eyes on neither of the candidates in the 2020 vote. Russia’s goal is far from hoping for the victory of either Donald Trump or Joe Biden; its true purpose is to shake the political situation in the United States and even spark a crisis in the U.S. election system, sending shockwaves into the American democratic model. The Kremlin can also enjoy the U.S. post-election turmoil to go ahead with its own political operations – like those in the post-Soviet area.

Sergey Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s spy the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti, agency, spoke in the wake of the final voting the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service day in the United States, with his words seen as (SVR) said it does not matter who wins the U.S. a stance of the siloviki camp whose members presidential race as neither the Republicans nor take a firm position in the Russian leadership Democrats are interested in improving equal and seek a confrontation with the West abroad ties with Russia. In fact, Naryshkin reiterated and tougher repression at home. Speaking to what Moscow officials had said sometime