The British parliamentary Committee on the activities of intelligence services and security published on Tuesday a report on the role and activities of Russia. In it deputies with reference to the investigation initiated by their predecessors from the previous composition of the Parliament, claim that Russia has repeatedly tried to interfere in the political processes in Britain, and the British government underestimated the threat and left her without a decent answer. The Kremlin, meanwhile, said: “Russia will never interfere in electoral processes in any country of the world — or the United States or in the UK or in other countries.””Russian influence in Britain is the new normal,” reads the accompanying report document.However, from the document you can get a General impression on what to see in London the role of Moscow. “Successive (British.— “B”) of the government with open arms welcomed (Russian.— “B”) of the oligarchs and their money gave them the opportunity to launder illegally obtained funds and provided connections at the highest level, including access to British companies and politicians,” I believe in the parliamentary Committee on activities of the intelligence services and security.The document notes: “the UK is one of the main goals of Russian intelligence in the West, especially given the strong position of the UK against the recent Russian aggression and the response to the attack in Salisbury, which under the leadership of Britain joined the international community”. It also says that the UK is a target for “Russian disinformation”.But no less dangerous, in their opinion, can be considered anti-European-minded state media and RT, Sputnik, and the use of bots and trolls in social networks and different websites. The authors of the document mention “credible comments from open sources, to make as an assumption that Russia organized a campaign to influence the referendum on Scottish independence, 2014”.About the existence of a report on Russia presented by the British intelligence services to the government, said last year. It supposedly contained information about the influence of Moscow on the results of the referendum in 2016 on relations with the EU and the Russians funding the election campaign of the conservatives. However, to publish the document before the December parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Boris Johnson refused. Accusations of trying to hide the Russian intervention, the Prime Minister called the “nonsense like fairy tales about the Bermuda triangle.” British media has called the report evidence of the “first post-Soviet interference in Western democratic elections.” In fact, the subject of the Russian VM��interference in the political process in the West has been actively discussed since 2014 on the background of the crisis in Russian-European relations. In particular, Western countries accuse Russian hackers trying to affect the technical aspects of voting or to steal any information, but Russian media and users of social networks — in an attempt to manipulate public opinion. As stated on Tuesday, the foreign Minister of Germany Heiko Maas, on Wednesday he will discuss “Russian influence in Europe” with his British colleague Dominic Raab.”Russia has never interfered in the electoral processes in any country of the world — or the United States or in the UK or in other countries. We don’t do it themselves and do not tolerate, when other countries are trying to interfere in our political Affairs,”— said Tuesday the press-Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov.Galina Dudina
