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Russian officials have denied any significant vote violations. Konstantin Kosachev, a senior United Russia member who headed the foreign affairs committee in the outgoing parliament described Clinton's statement as "one of the darkest pages in the Russian-U.S. relations" and warned Washington against supporting the opposition. Russia's only independent election monitoring group, Golos, which is funded by U.S. and European grants, came under heavy official pressure ahead of the vote after Putin likened Russian recipients of foreign support to Judas. Golos' website was incapacitated by hackers on the voting day, and its director Lilya Shibanova and her deputy had their cell phone numbers, email and social media accounts hacked.
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