Famous Russian pranksters Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexei Stolyarov said on Tuesday that they had tricked California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. and discussed with him Russia's alleged involvement in the US elections, which, according to Brown, was minimal.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 11th December, 2018) Famous Russian pranksters Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexei Stolyarov said on Tuesday that they had tricked California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. and discussed with him Russia's alleged involvement in the US elections, which, according to Brown, was minimal.
The pranksters talked to Brown posing themselves as Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman and Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States Valeriy Chaly.
"The elections in America, I think, are being driven by domestic actors: by politicians � Republicans and Democrats, by media (Fox news), by corporations that spend money, by many-many factors. And from the evidence [that] I have seen the impact of Russia is very-very small. They might have had intentions to do something but the impact is minimal," Brown told Kuznetsov, who spoke on behalf of Groysman, according to a transcript received by Sputnik.
Brown also argued that in the modern world countries had serious capacities to carry out cyberattacks of various kinds and Russia's attempts to use them to influence the US electoral process cannot be ruled out.
Since the 2016 US presidential election, the United States has been accusing Russia of interference in its internal affairs, particularly through social media. Russia has repeatedly dismissed these claims as unfounded, adding that meddling in other countries' domestic affairs contradicted its foreign policy. A number of US politicians suggested ahead of the US midterm elections, held on November 6, that the future vote might see Russia's alleged attempts to influence the process.
