In NYC's Russian enclaves, a big 'nyet' to hacking talk

Most Russian-speaking expatriates interviewed by The Associated Press this past week in Brooklyn's heavily ex-Soviet enclaves shrugged off a CIA assessment that Russia hacked the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton's campaign boss to help Donald Trump, portraying it as nothing more than political sour grapes.

While the city overall went nearly 79 percent for Clinton in the presidential election, most precincts in the two neighborhoods voted "za Trampa," or for Trump, some as high as 80 percent.

Touting Trump's electoral triumph as "a huge victory for regular people," Odessa, Ukraine, transplant Yuriy Taras scoffed at the hacking allegations and that Russian President Vladimir Putin was personally behind it.

CIA Director John Brennan has said the intelligence community is in agreement that Russia tried to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, though there's no evidence Moscow succeeded in helping Trump win.

Yefim Kacher, a hair salon owner from Odessa who said he voted for Trump because of his promise to slash taxes, was among the few who said there appears to be sufficient evidence that Russia tried to sway the U.S. election outcome.