“‘The [DNC] hack has been framed in a broader narrative of a broader western conspiracy against Russia,’ says Alina Polyakova of the Atlantic Council, a Washington think tank. ‘This idea that everything is corrupt, that everything is rotten, that there’s no such thing as a real democracy – this kind of sentiment legitimates what President Putin has grown in Russia which is this illiberal political system. It makes it seem like it’s OK.'”
Source: How the DNC hack is boosting anti-US sentiment in Russia – CSMonitor.com