The Kremlin on Tuesday rejected Washington’s accusations that Russia tried to disrupt the 2016 presidential vote and sought to demoralise African-Americans, calling the charges incomprehensible.

According to a new report for the US Senate, the primary goal of Russia’s Internet Research Agency (IRA) was to deepen divisions in US society and convince Democrat-favoring liberals — including Latinos, youths and the LGBTQ community — not to vote.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the report by the Computational Propaganda Project at Oxford University and social media specialists Graphika caused “nothing but incomprehension.”

“It voices absolutely general charges and accusations and some of them are absolutely unclear to us,” Peskov told reporters on a conference call.

“We are reproached that someone critically thinks of a situation in this or that social sphere in the United States but it is not explained what Russia has to do with it,” he said.

He reiterated Russia’s long-standing position that any such claims were unfounded.

“The Russian state, the Russian government had and has nothing to do with any interference, especially one that is described in such abstract terms,” Peskov added.

Source: AFP