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A Russian woman has become the first foreign national charged with interfering in the 2018 midterm elections.

The Justice Department on Friday charged Elena Khusyaynova, 44, who is not in US custody, with conspiracy for allegedly managing a $10 million, oligarch-funded scheme to manipulate US voters through social media ads and web postings, much of it involving misinformation.

The foreign influence scheme, dubbed “Project Lakhta,” was intended “to sow division and discord in the US political system,” the DOJ complaint alleges, by stoking such hot-button issues as immigration, the Confederate flag, gun control and NFL players “taking a knee” during the national anthem.

Khusyaynova managed Project Lakhta’s finances, the complaint alleges.

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