Russian government posts April Fools' Day prank offering "election interference"

[Perrine]

[quote]Need some election interference? The Russian Foreign Ministry is ready to help -- or so it says on April Fools’ Day.

On Saturday, the ministry posted on its Facebook page an audio file of the purported new automated telephone switchboard message for Russian embassies.

“To arrange a call from a Russian diplomat to your political opponent, press 1,” the recording begins, in Russian and English. Press 2 “to use the services of Russian hackers,” and 3 “to request election interference.”

The English portion of the recording begins 26 seconds into the video, with the title translated as “Answering machine for Russian diplomatic missions.”

A ministry duty officer, who did not give his name in line with official practice, confirmed to The Associated Press that the post was an official joke. [/quote]

[url]http://www.cbsnews.com/news/russian-government-posts-april-fools-day-prank-offering-election-interference/[/url]

Video in source

[Glo]

Seriousness of the allegations aside, this is pretty hilarious