Americans head to the polls today to vote in what promises to be a historic presidential election. Thousands of miles away, on the other side of the globe, the Russian news media is paying close attention.
Russia has been an unusually hot topic in this year’s race, following allegations by Hillary Clinton and U.S. cyber-security experts that Russian state-sponsored hackers are to blame for stealing troves of emails from top Democratic Party officials and staff members in Clinton’s campaign, and then leaking the data to Wikileaks, which has published the information over the past several months.
