{"id":22336,"date":"2018-02-18T12:01:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T12:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=22336"},"modified":"2018-02-18T12:01:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T12:01:12","slug":"us-election-interference%e2%80%89russia-says-indictments-absurd-but-thats-modern-american-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/us-election-interference%e2%80%89russia-says-indictments-absurd-but-thats-modern-american-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"US election interference:\u2009Russia says indictments \u2018absurd\u2019, but that\u2019s modern American politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian foreign ministry on Friday dismissed as \u201cabsurd\u201d the indictments of 13 Russians by the United States for allegedly meddling in the 2016 US presidential race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThirteen people carried out interference in the US elections? Thirteen against the billion-dollar budgets of the special forces? Against the espionage and counter-espionage, against the newest developments and technologies?\u201d foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsurd? Yes. But this is the modern American political reality,\u201d she added, in the first official reaction from Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>The businessman who tops the list of those indicted, Yevgeny Prigozhin, also made light of the indictments in comments to RIA Novosti state news agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmericans are very impressionable people. They see what they want to see. I have great respect for them. I am not at all upset that I am in this list. If they want to see a devil, let them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Prigozhin is nicknamed President Vladimir Putin\u2019s \u201cchef\u201d by Russian media and runs a company that has catered for Kremlin receptions. He has been photographed with the strongman and his company Konkord is subject to US sanctions.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian foreign ministry on Friday dismissed as \u201cabsurd\u201d the indictments of 13 Russians by the United States for allegedly meddling in the 2016 US presidential race. \u201cThirteen people carried out interference in the US elections? Thirteen against the billion-dollar budgets of the special forces? Against the espionage and counter-espionage, against the newest developments and [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22338,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22336\/revisions\/22338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}