Just because the operation was thinly veiled, however, does not mean that the Russian trolling — creating provocative online posts about immigration, religion and race to try to sway voters — lacked high-level support. There is a saying in Russian that the Kremlin has many towers, meaning that various bureaucratic cabals and government agencies hold differing and sometimes competing interests. On Saturday, Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister dismissed the indictment as “just blabber.”“I have no response. We see these statements and indictments multiplying,” Lavrov said at an international security conference in Munich. “Mueller’s list: Russian superagents are capable of anything” read one sarcastic headline on a television website.

Source: thestar February 17, 2018 23:37 UTC