MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 09th September, 2018) No complaints have been registered so far about alleged Russia's interference with the Swedish parliamentary elections currently held across the country, Swedish Ambassador to Russia Peter Ericson told Sputnik on Sunday.
A total of 29 Constituencies are electing members of the country's unicameral 349-seat parliament, the Riksdag. The election's results are expected to be announced early on Monday.
"We can see that certain Swedish websites are closely linked to websites in Russia, to fake news. However, the security police say that there are currently no complaints about Russia's meddling specifically. It does not mean that it [meddling] does not take place at all. But no one has complained about it so far," Ericson said.
Moscow has been under a storm of criticism over its alleged meddling in the elections in other countries since the 2016 presidential election in the United States, when Washington accused Russia of hacking the network of the Democratic Party in order to obtain confidential information and sway the election in favor of then-candidate of the Republican party Donald Trump.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and other senior officials have repeatedly refuted all claims about Moscow's meddling, stating that Russia does not interfere with internal affairs of other countries.
