Meddling With Elections

It is pretty unlikely that Russia's Putin has a videotape of Joe Biden locked away somewhere so he will not have the same blackmail power as he had over old pissy bed Trump and Biden has already warned him in a telephone call to not mess with US Elections anymore.
It is long thought that Russia helped Trump become the President and once he was there, the criticism of poisoning and invading their neighbours stopped but Biden is in the big seat now and messing in American elections is off limits, Amercian's meddling in other nations elections not quite so much.
Carnegie Mellon University has published research showing that the US has intervened in foreign elections over 80 times in a 47 different countries since 1945 including the 1996 Russian elections.
In one corner was the Communist candidate Gennady Zyuganov who had a policy of rolling back the reforms that had emerged in Russia following the fall of Communism and in the other corner, the much more Western friendly and favoured American candidate Boris Yeltsin.  
Boris, fond of the falling down water and generally a bit of a numpty, was lagging badly behind Zyuganov until the Americans under Bill Clinton persuaded the IMF to provide the Yeltsin government with a loan of about $10bn, the second-largest IMF loan ever granted at that time, of which $1.3bn arrived before the election.
Yeltsin used these funds for a wide range of popularity-courting public spending sprees and the US also sent over campaign advisors to help organize Yeltsin’s re-election bid.
Yeltsin won the election and America got its patsy in the Kremlin, roll forward two decades and Russia got its own tiny handed patsy in the White House so the rules seem to be we can mess with yours but you try and mess with ours and we will really, really cry a lot about it.