Russia is set to increase its military presence in Nicaragua after its parliamentary upper house, the Federation Council, ratified its cooperation agreement with the communist Ortega regime on Wednesday — a deal that Nicaraguan dissidents denounced turns their country into a “Russian military base.”
The neo-liberal government of Poland has claimed that Russia has deployed an “unprecedented” level of disinformation and other interference tactics amid the impending presidential election, as the conservative challenger has gained in the polls.
The Constitutional Court of Romania has rejected the appeals of former presidential candidate Călin Georgescu against a ban on his candidacy in upcoming elections, a move supporters have claimed is an affront to the democratic process.
Chaos broke out on the streets of Bucharest on Sunday evening as supporters of former presidential frontrunner Călin Georgescu reacted with rage after Romania’s Central Electoral Bureau barred him from running again following the annulled November elections in which he won the first round of voting.
The sovereigntist frontrunner in Romania’s annulled election, Călin Georgescu, was detained by police and charged by prosecutors on Wednesday amid accusations that his campaign was aided by Russia and shortly after U.S. Vice President JD Vance warned of threats against democracy in the Eastern European nation.
As Vice President Kamala Harris faces increasingly challenging odds in the current election, left-wing voices are reviving familiar claims of Russian interference to explain a potential defeat.
Ukrainian officials blocked former President Petro Poroshenko from leaving the country to meet with Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán over an alleged Kremlin plot.
A rumour that claimed Russia influenced populist Matteo Salvini to collapse Italy’s technocratic “unity” government under Mario Draghi has been quashed by an official with links to Italian intelligence.
Sweden has launched a new agency to counter foreign disinformation, the new leader of which cited alleged Russian interference in the US to justify action.
After initially censoring New York Post revelations about Biden family corruption citing the Post as an unreliable source, Wikipedia editors eventually added the story to an article labeling it “debunked” and a “conspiracy theory” while rejecting reports confirming the story. Editors have also added the Post story to an article on “Russian interference in the 2020 United States elections” despite no evidence of Russian involvement.
The Connecticut Secretary of State announced she has hired an expert who will defend against foreign interference in the November elections.
Blair said that Scottish independence is now a “possibility”, warning that PM Boris “is not going to be the person who saves the Union”.
The report criticised the govt for failing to look into the possibility of Russian interferrence — a claim the government has rejected.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has said that “some serious apologies are due” after a preview of a report found there was no Russian interference in the 2016 European Union membership referendum.
Judicial Watch has made public 90 pages of heavily redacted DJJ documents showing Obama State Department officials’ efforts to disseminate classified information prior to Trump’s inauguration.
Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller refused to confirm that he interviewed Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence operative who authored the now-debunked dossier alleging collusion between President Donald Trump and Russia, during his 22-month investigation into election interference.
Thursday at an event in northern Virginia, former President Jimmy Carter agreed that Donald Trump’s presidency was “illegitimate,” claiming that Trump would not have defeated Hillary Clinton if the Russians did not interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
Democrat activists, funded by LinkedIn co-founder and left-wing financier Reid Hoffman, imitated “Russian tactics” to push the 2017 Alabama Senate election in favor of the Democratic Party, including the creation of fake conservative Facebook pages to divide Republicans, according to the New York Times.
The Government has told the House of the Commons that it has not seen evidence of “successful use of disinformation” by Russia to influence the democratic process.
An NPR/Maris poll shows that one in three Americans believe a foreign government could change the outcome of the midterm elections.
Gallup Editor-in-Chief Frank Newport said Tuesday most Americans do not believe President Trump did anything criminal with Russian interference in the 2016 elections.
Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested to NBC News’ Megyn Kelly last week that Jews might have been to blame for alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election in the United States.
Russian president Vladimir Putin has said he “couldn’t care less” about claims made in the United States that he ordered interference in the 2016 presidential election.
A new report by one of Mexico’s top newspapers points to a sophisticated effort by Russian operators to influence the upcoming 2018 Mexican presidential election. The efforts appear to be based on the use of misinformation to create discord within Mexico.
Carter Page, the American financial consultant who was tangentially and briefly associated with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, told Breitbart News the controversial, largely discredited 35-page “dodgy dossier” served as the “central foundation” for the FBI’s extensive questioning of him about alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD.) told National Public Radio on Friday that the President Donald Trump meeting one-on-one with fired FBI Director James Comey was “extremely troubling” and “totally inappropriate.”
President Donald Trump announced in an interview with Fox Business Wednesday morning that he does not intend to ask FBI Director James Comey to resign and did not do so at the start of his administration because he wanted “to give everybody a good, fair chance.”
