In a telling interview that covered a broad list of topics before the upcoming G20 gathering in China, Russian President Vladimir Putin has swept aside all accusations of Russia’s alleged involvement in the high-profile hacks targeting the U.S. Democratic party.
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OPEC and Russian Federation should reach a deal to freeze oil supply, while Iran deserves to complete its return to world markets, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said in interview to Bloomberg.
Many U.S. officials have suggested Russian Federation was complicit in the hack that led to Wikileaks publishing 20,000 internal DNC emails on the eve of that party’s national convention in Philadelphia.
Ruling out the return of the Southern Kuril Islands, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sept.1 that Moscow was open to the idea of a compromise with Japan.
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.
Earlier, U.S. President Barack Obama had said that he would discuss the hacking with Putin.
“Listen, does it even matter who hacked this data?” Putin told Bloomberg News on Thursday. That’s why we never intervened, don’t intervene and try not to intervene in domestic political processes”. The important thing is the content given to public. “You know there are so many hackers today, and they work with such minute precision, so finely”, he said, adding that hackers are able to “camouflage their activity under the activity of other hackers from other areas, other countries”. “I’m not sure that even our Foreign Ministry experts are sensitive enough”.
Putin noted that the leaks indicated “specifically that the campaign headquarters worked in the interest of one of the candidates, in this case Mrs. Clinton, rather than equally for all of the Democratic Party candidates”.
Putin, who has always been wary of making Russian Federation too dependent financially on external markets, said that despite the budget deficit of around 3 percent of GDP this year, there was no need for foreign borrowing.
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The Republican nominee has seemed to enjoy sporadic attention shown him by Putin, such as when the Russian leader called Trump “colorful” and “very talented”.
