Russians investigate role US media

moscow - The authorities are investigating Russian or American media have been guilty of influencing the Russian parliamentary elections last year. It looks at the role of media as CNN, Radio Free Europe and Voice of America played around the elections, The Moscow Times reported Wednesday.

The head of the Parliamentary Committee on Information and Communications, Leonid Levin, said that the work of journalists may have influenced the election. According to Levin, representatives of CNN and Voice of America invited to appear before the committee. That invitation would not respond.

'We're talking about structures that are part of a larger system that American pressure on our country,' Levin said at a meeting of the committee. 'They use various instruments in relation to both the Russian electoral process and our country as a whole. '

US intelligence officials accused just before the Russians from interfering with the US election. The goal would be to get Donald Trump at the White House. The Kremlin has always denied.