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Time: Why Russia can claim victory as Trump casts doubt on the US presidential vote

By Time.

Published Nov. 7, 2020 at 2:37 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he leaves Red Square after a military parade, which marks the 75th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Moscow on June 24, 2020.

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About an hour before the first U.S. polls opened on Election Day, the Kremlin’s leading news agency published an interview with Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s foreign intelligence service, the SVR, which helped orchestrate the Russian attempt to interfere in the 2016 elections.