Russia Sees Trump As Conduit To Ease Sanctions

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/russia-sees-trump-as-conduit-to-ease-sanctions
"members of President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party aren't holding back. "It turns out that United Russia won the elections in America," Viktor Nazarov, the governor of Omsk, Russia, declared in a radio interview. Long before Donald Trump was on the radar of American voters, Russia had deep interests in the outcome of elections around the world. But 2016 presented a unique window. Motivated by years of crippling economic sanctions and decades of post-Soviet setbacks, the Russians were keener than ever to pounce; the race for the White House, plagued by party infighting and scandal, was easy bait."