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Carter Page, as an adviser to the foreign policy of the presidential campaign, Donald Trump, proposed organizing a trip to the US presidential candidate to Russia in the summer of 2016. Page told this to the Intelligence Committee of the House of Representatives, CNN reports with reference to the transcript of the meeting.

According to Page, he received an invitation to speak at one of the universities in Moscow shortly after he became an adviser to the campaign headquarters. Page reported this to the staff of the election campaign and came up with the initiative to send Trump to Russia instead of him. “If he wants to take my place,” Page wrote in a letter to the staff of the headquarters, “I will be more than happy to give him this honor.” At the same time, Page recalled that Barack Obama, being a US presidential candidate in 2008, was a speech in Germany. However, in the end, Page went to Moscow himself.

At the hearing at the end of last week, it turned out that Page during a trip to Moscow in July 2016 had contacts with a large number of representatives of the Russian authorities than he recognized before. In particular, Page met with Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich. At the same time, Page insists that he was in Moscow as a private person, and not as a representative of the election headquarters.

Prior to this, Page in numerous interviews in the media either denied that he had met with Russian officials during a trip to Moscow, or said that he had met "mainly with scientists." Only last week did he recognize the fact of a meeting with Russian officials , calling him "insignificant." “I just briefly greeted several people. That's all,” he said. Page said that one of the people he met was a "high -ranking person", but did not name the name of this man.

In the US Congress, hearing about Russian intervention in the election of the US President in 2016 continues. In parallel, the investigation is conducted by the special prosecutor Robert Müller. On Monday, the large jury of the jury, convened by Muller, presented the political technologist Paul Manafort, the former chief of the campaign headquarters of Donald Trump, accusations of 12 episodes, includinga conspiracy against the United States . The same accusations were brought by the Manafort partner - Rick Gates. The accusations relate to the receipt of money from parties and political figures of Ukraine and laundering these funds. Manafort and Gates. Both were sent under house arrest.