And Putin rejected a criticism, leveled by critics and opponents of Clinton, that the sale of a Canadian uranium mining company to a Russian company in 2013 was approved by the State Department under Clinton in exchange for a $2.35 million donation to the Clinton Foundation by the chairman of the company. “Wherever the system of rule is presidential, to a considerable extent people vote not so much for a party but for the presidential candidate”.
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The Russian president also commented on the United States presidential election. “As the leader of Japan, I am firmly convinced of the correctness of the Japanese position, while you, Vladimir, as the leader of Russia, are entirely confident of the correctness of the Russian position”, Mr Abe said.
They act so delicately and precisely that they can leave their mark – or even the mark of others – at the necessary time and place, camouflaging their activities as that of other hackers from other territories or countries. “But if our partners will agree with a different logic, one of considering mutual interests, of respecting each other’s interests, then our relations will change, too”, Putin said.
Putin also expressed hope that the relations between the two nations could be improved, and said he was pleased to meet the new PM in person.
Speaking at a business forum in Russia’s Pacific port of Vladivostok attended by South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinz Abe, Putin said Moscow favoured bringing North Korea back to worldwide negotiations over its nuclear programme.
US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton says the alleged Russian hacking into the country’s election campaign is posing serious “threats”, calling it “almost unthinkable”.
May said she hoped for an open dialogue with Russian Federation even though the two countries have serious differences, speaking at the start of a meeting with Putin on the sidelines of a G20 summit in Hangzhou city in China.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday ended a series of meetings in Hangzhou without a cease-fire agreement.
Asked by Bloomberg about the allegations, Putin laughed them off. We’ve never had a foreign adversarial power be already involved in our electoral process with the DNC hacks.
“I don’t think they are setting the best example”, he said.
“One of the key problems is that we insist, and our American partners do not object to this, that the so-called healthy part of the opposition should be separated from the radical groups and terrorist organizations such as Jabhat Al-Nusra”, he said.
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In the wake of the release, Donald Trump praised Putin and encouraged the Russian government to try and hack into Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
