And that shows why it is a bad law as written - now criticizing Hillary Clinton on Facebook while being Russian turns out to be a crime. By using extremely broad definitions of "thing of value": saying "Hillary is bad, Sanders is good" is helpful to Sanders, so if you're Russian or Israeli or Moroccan or Indonesian citizen now it's a crime for you to say it. And using extremely wide definition of "in connection to ... election" - we hold elections every two years, so everything is close to the election and thus can be said to be in connection - any political expression can be prosecuted this way.

What would you say if in Putin's Russia somebody would indict an American for criticizing Putin on Facebook? Probably that Putin is a dictator and hates freedom of speech and of course he would do things like that. Now US justice system is doing that. For shame.