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Washington Post: Russians dismiss US report accusing Putin as ‘one more giant fake’​

By Washington Post.
(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on Dec. 30, 2016 shows a file photo taken on December 28, 2016 of US President-elect Donald Trump (L) in Palm Beach, Florida; and a file photo taken on Dec. 23, 2016, of Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking in Moscow.
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MOSCOW — Russian commentators on Saturday dismissed, with no small amount of derision, the conclusion by U.S. intelligence agencies that President Vladi­mir Putin personally ordered a campaign to sabotage the American presidential election.

Few in Russia have ever accepted the notion that the Kremlin intervened to hurt Hillary Clinton and help President-elect Donald Trump, but the 14-page declassified report, lacking as it was in details, drew instant contempt from Moscow’s chattering classes.

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