and some indication that putin is trying to get think tank but reflect government policy, they tend not to direct they issue two papers, one of which said we ve got to get behind trump because mr. trump is going to be more prorussian, that was in june and then they issued a second paper, i think, in october that said, hmm, i don t think president trump is going to be president trump, so let s stop the propaganda campaign but start to undermine the legitimacy of the american election. there s you know, there was no name on it. it wasn t directed to vladimir putin, we don t know who influenced whom. it does reflect what appears to be psident pin s attitude toward the american election and his effort to influence the ouome of the american election