Russian President Vladimir Putin said the euro area could someday shrink in size if its stronger members sought to close ranks.
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Putin was elected in 2000 after Boris Yeltsin named him his successor and resigned on New Year’s Eve.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin began talks on Friday with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, but the Kremlin said the meeting was unlikely to produce a breakthrough in a territorial row that has bedeviled bilateral ties for eight decades. His ratings were high but on their way down before Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, a move immensely popular with the Russian voters.
Putin dismissed the allegations. Regarding the failed meeting at Doha, Putin said it was Saudi Arabia that changed its mind “at the last moment” and that Russia’s position on freezing output has not changed. While speaking about the difficulties there are actually finding the source for such a data breach, he repeated that “we definitely don’t do this at a state level”.
Allegations of Kremlin interference have roiled the already contentious race in the wake of charges by USA officials that Russian Federation was behind the hacking of the Democratic National Committee. Clinton’s campaign manager, Robert Mook, has suggested that Trump may be a “puppet” for the Kremlin.
With his praising of the DNC hackers’ work as “for the public good”, Putin’s denials of any involvement with the DNC hack are not being well received.
During the forum, participants introduced some 110 projects involving companies in more than 30 countries, including Japan, China and South Korea. Trump in July invited Russian Federation to find the 30,000 emails Clinton deleted from the controversial personal email server she used while secretary of State.
Clinton has criticized the Republican for perceived friendliness towards the longtime leader of the U.S.’s former Cold War adversary, and continued tying the two together after Putin’s interview. What happens to your investments should Donald Trump become president?
Putin said both candidates were using shock tactics and that playing “the anti-Russian card” was short-sighted.
“They are both intelligent people”, Putin said.
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Putin’s view on Russia’s latest best friend, Iran, will not be sitting well with Iran’s regional archrival, Saudi Arabia, which is also OPEC’s top oil producer, with non-OPEC Russia sitting pretty as the world’s top producer. “But that’s the political culture of the United States, you have to take it as you find it”.
