“Look at what Russia has done by buying some kind of advertising on Facebook in an attempt to sow disagreements ... and this is terrible, but I think that the investigation and all the speculations that have occurred in the last two years have had a much stronger impact our democracy than any ads on Facebook, ”Kouchner said during an interview at the Time Summit in New York.

Earlier, US attorney Rudolph Giuliani said he did not see anything wrong with “receiving information from the Russians” during the election campaign of Donald Trump.

US Vice President Mike Pence called to find out whether the investigation by Special Prosecutor Robert Muller about the “Russian interference” was legal.

The Kremlin called the accusations against Russia presented in this paper insufficiently reasoned.