Putin says Russia didn’t hack US Democratic Party

Putin said it wasn’t important who conducted the hacking, but “what’s important is that there was material that was released to the public”.

In an interview with Bloomberg news agency before he met Abe, Putin indicated he would not contemplate giving up territory.

The DNC hack was first reported in June, when the suspected intruders were found to have accessed party research into the campaign of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as well as the private emails of dozens of Democratic party officials.

“While his purported predilections have been the subject of bitter invective from both sides, in public at least, Putin didn’t show much enthusiasm for either one”, the report added.

A U.S. official saying earlier this summer there was “little doubt” Russian Federation was behind the attack. Russia’s president is officially denying his government was behind cyber-attacks on the computers of the DNC and other political organizations.

While talks collapsed in April over whether Iran should join in, countries now recognize the nation – freed just months ago from worldwide sanctions – should be allowed to continue raising production, Putin said.

After all, in the past two years, the prospects of a resolution to the long-standing Kuril Islands dispute-and Russia-Japan relations more generally-have ebbed and flowed. That was followed up with a leak of another dossier, this time belonging to Hillary Clinton, leaked by unknown hackers.

The Russian president also commented on the United States presidential election.

“This is a national security issue and every American deserves answers about potential collusion between Trump campaign associates and the Kremlin”, he said.

Trump: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30-thousand emails that are missing”. A month earlier, he accused the State Department under Mrs Clinton of approving the Russian takeover of uranium assets in the USA after investors in the deal paid US$145 million to the Clinton Foundation. Mr Putin asked in the interview.

Relations between Moscow and Tokyo suffered an additional blow after Japan joined the ranks of the states imposing sanctions on Russian Federation dictated by Washington following the Ukraine crisis.

Mrs Clinton is ahead in the polls against Mr Trump, who’s promised to improve ties with Russian Federation to fight common threats such as Islamic State and praised Putin’s leadership. “America and [Democratic presidential nominee] Hillary Clinton have caused him trouble, and Russian Federation never has”. Putin also blamed her for stoking protests in 2011.

According to a government source, after Abe’s one-on-one discussion with Putin, the prime minister told his close associates, “We agreed that we should both make decisions from the comprehensive perspective of our own national interests”. He also slammed the candidates for using the “anti-Russian card”, and called the strategy “short-sighted”.

“The people of Crimea have made their choice, they have voted [in a referendum]”, he said. Some suggest that this overlap is temporary, judging by the history of the two countries and their certainly uneven relations, but however long it lasts, this relationship will put Russian Federation on a firmer footing in the Middle East, to the disadvantage of other major players, namely, Saudi Arabia.

What’s disturbing to us is that experts are telling us that Russian state actors broke into the DNC, stole these emails…other experts are now saying that the Russians are releasing these emails for the objective of actually helping Donald Trump…

“All this should be more dignified”, he said.