MOSCOW – Blurry video of highly placed men engaging in sexual acts, audio recordings of influential figures profanely insulting their nominal allies – in Russia these appear enough that a special word has evolved: “kompromat,” or “compromising material.”
In the wake of unsubstantiated allegations that Russia has gathered kompromat against President-elect Donald Trump, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov brushed them off as an attempt to undermine potentially improved U.S.-Russia ties once Trump takes office.
