Moscow — Russia’s government insisted on Monday that there was no evidence it meddled in the US elections, after Washington indicted 13 Russians for alleged covert efforts to sway voters. "There are no indications that the Russian government could be involved in this," President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists. It was the Kremlin’s first comment since the indictments were filed on Friday by a US special prosecutor as part of a federal government probe. The indictments allege that a Putin associate led a Russia-based operation churning out social media content, using fake US identities, that included criticisms of Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race. US President Donald Trump on Sunday glossed over any Russian responsibility and offered no indication of what his administration would do about it. He wrote on Twitter that Russia had indeed succeeded in sowing discord in the US but denied his campaign had coll-uded with Russia, sayi...
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