Russia will not interfere in U.S. election: Kremlin
STORY: President Vladimir Putin, Russia's paramount leader since the last day of 1999, has dropped a series of ironic remarks about the U.S. election, saying that he finds Joe Biden preferable as the next U.S. president to Donald Trump.
"We never interfered in elections in the United States," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a lecture to students on stereotypes about Russia, occasionally slipping into English.
"And this time, we do not intend to interfere... We do not dictate to anyone how to live - but we don't want others to dictate to us," Peskov said.
Peskov said any attempt from abroad to interfere in Russia's presidential election later this month would be prevented. Russia, he said, did not care about Western criticism of the vote which Putin, barring an unexpected development, is certain to win.
