British PM to Russia: ‘We know what you are doing’

CNN — UK Prime Minister Theresa May has mounted a stern attack on Russia, claiming that it interferes in elections and plants fake news stories to sow discord and undermine Western institutions. In a significant escalation of rhetoric, May accused Moscow of attempting to “weaponize information” as part of a “sustained campaign of cyberespionage and disruption.” Russia’s actions were “threatening the international order,” she said. Konstantin Kosachev, Head of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs, said in a Facebook post Tuesday that May’s speech was “surprisingly full of ideological cliches.” “The mistake is that this conflict is not ideological and there will be no “triumph of Western values” this time, no one is fighting them here,” he wrote. And this cannot be ignored.” May’s comments contrast starkly with US President Donald Trump’s recent comment that he believed Vladimir Putin’s denials of interfering in the 2016 US presidential elections. She cited Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent comment that “when a state fails to observe universal rules of conduct and pursues its interests at any cost, it will provoke resistance and disputes will become unpredictable and dangerous.” “I say to President Putin, I agree.