Moscow, February 4 (Interfax) - Russia's top criminal investigation agency claims that the majority of Web videos that purportedly show fraud at polling stations during December's parliamentary elections in Russia "possess elements of montage," and that all of them "were disseminated from the same server, which is situated in the United States."
The Investigative Committee had criminologists scrutinize the videos "as part of procedural investigations into offenses" during the State Duma elections, and the conclusion was that "the majority of videos possess elements of montage," Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin told Interfax.
The footage was made in the cities of Moscow, St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg, the regions of Moscow, Kemerovo, Sverdlovsk, Tyumen and Tula, the territory of Krasnoyarsk, and the republics of Chuvashia and North Ossetia-Alania, Markin said.
"But the most remarkable fact is that all the videos were disseminated from the same server, which is situated in the United States, in California. For this reason, measures are being taken at the Investigative Committee to identify the authors of those videos and those who had commissioned them," he said.
