“I am quite an active patriot. I love Russia,” Sergey Polozov said.
One of the Russians indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller has admitted that he “cooperated” with the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg, but denied knowledge of its being a troll farm.
The indictment, according to the U.S. Justice Department, says the agency's intention was to"sow discord in the US. political system." Polozov said he thought he was working with a group of organizations and “there was no understanding that this was a single structure.” He did not believe the media reports that it was a single organization trying to sway American voters.
“I did not control the servers, I did not purchase them, and in fact had nothing to do with any servers,” he claimed. After the Russians were indicted last month, Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said at a press conference in Washington that the charges did not mean the Russian activity had an effect on the outcome of the election, The Guardian reported.
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