Russia report 'to find Kremlin tried to influence Scottish referendum but not Brexit'
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mirror.co.ukRussia attempted to influence the Scottish independence referendum but not the Brexit vote, an investigation has reportedly found.
A long-awaited probe into alleged Russian interference in British democracy, due to be published on Tuesday, found "credible open-source commentary that Russia undertook to influence the campaign on Scottish independence" in 2014, the Telegraph reported.
The paper said the report by MPs and peers described the Kremlin's role in the vote that could have split the UK as "the first post-Soviet interference in a Western democratic election".
But after an 18-month investigation, Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) found nothing to suggest Russia played any part in the 2016 European Union poll,
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