“There’s no need to try and distract public attention from the essence of the problem with questions of secondary importance, connected with the search for who did it”. “I don’t know anything about it, and on a state level Russian Federation has never done this”.
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“We have never interfered, are not interfering and do not intend to interfere in domestic politics”. Join us on September 12 as our panel of the world’s top financial experts provide trusted information on the investment risks and opportunities that arise with the upcoming presidential election in November. “If the British side thinks that there’s a need for a dialogue in some areas, then we’re ready, we aren’t going to pout”.
The Russian government’s preliminary target for 2017 ranges 10.5 million barrels per day to 11 mbd, depending on the market.
The admission, however, may say something about Putin himself and Russian policy vis-a-vis the West. Putin may well mean what he said in the Bloomberg interview in Vladivostok about not caring who would win the US election as long as the next president is willing to work with Russia.
Vladimir Putin said Russian Federation and the USA are close to striking a deal on fighting terrorists in Syria that would be a major step toward ending a civil war that’s flooded Europe with refugees and given rise to Islamic State. It’s a security matter for us as to who our sources are.
The Russian leader weighed in on the revelations that resulted from the release of DNC data, showing that DNC officials appeared to favor Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign over primary rival Bernie Sanders.
Also hacked was a computer network used by Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic Party’s fundraising committee.
In an interview two days before a G20 meeting in China with U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders, Mr. Putin said ongoing talks between Moscow and Washington were very hard but on the right track.
Asked by Bloomberg about the allegations, Putin laughed them off. For this, you understand, one would need to have a feel for the flavor and the peculiarities of US domestic politics.
In July, Clinton accused Russian intelligence services of hacking into the DNC servers, while accusing Trump soliciting support from Putin.
“Unsurprisingly, Putin has joined Trump in cheering foreign interference in the USA election that is clearly created to inflict political damage on Hillary Clinton and Democrats”, her spokesman Jesse Lehrich told Bloomberg in a statement.
Putin said that he has no preference for either Clinton nor Republican nominee Donald Trump in the presidential race, but criticized them both for playing the “anti-Russian card”.
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President Vladimir Putin is watching the USA election campaign with a mixture of irony, disgust and imperfect understanding.
