On October 21 and 22 media reported the Russian Consulate-General to the United States in August officially asked to three U.S. states the authorization to monitor voting on November 8 during presidential election in order to “study the "U.S. experience in organization of the voting process.” In these days, the three states, namely Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana publically announced they have refused to host Russian observers saying that their national law only allows election officials and voter being present in polling stations during the election.

Russian state officials took this response in a bad way defining the decision as influence by “Russophobic tendencies” Russia’s Izviestia agency reported on October 21. “If we are deprived of this for political reasons, we will draw our own conclusions,” Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov stated to RIA Novosti on October 22.

To tell the truth, the United States had officially invited Russia to participate in the election monitoring process together with the OSCE observers’ team, which monitor election in the OSCE region. Invitation has been rejected by Russian officials although U.S. State Department John Kirby said the Russian diplomats are still welcomed to observe the elections (within the OSCE framework). “There's nothing for us to fear from having Russian observers observing our election. We're very confident in the stability, the security, and the strength of our electoral process. There's no need to hide from that," he reiterated. However, the American statesman pointed out that the decision to not join the OSCE mission “makes clear that this issue is nothing more than a publicity stunt.”

Allegations over Russia’s interests in influencing the U.S. vote started raging after Russian-backed hacker attack leaked Democratic party emails and files attempting to favour Republican candidate Donald Trump, who is admittedly Putin-leaning.

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