Russia’s Putin meets Japanese PM to discuss peace deal

“I think that from the point of view of economic expediency and logic, it would be right to find some sort of compromise” on Iranian output, Putin said in an interview with Bloomberg, a transcript of which was published on the Kremlin website.

“You know, I essentially already answered your question”, Putin said.

Some U.S. officials have stated that Russian Federation is attempting to influence the outcome of the upcoming presidential elections in November.

The FBI firmly believes that Russian Federation was behind the DNC hack, leading to concerns that Putin’s government may be trying to influence the USA election by obtaining embarrassing documents from the Democratic Party and then releasing them through platforms such as WikiLeaks.

The emails revealed attempts by Democratic party officials to undermine Hillary Clinton’s top competitor, Sen.

Putin was critical of both Clinton and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who Russian Federation has been accused of favoring, however.

The FBI as well as security experts brought in to examine the original DNC break-in traced the attack to hacker groups they said are known to be linked to Russian intelligence services.

At a press conference in Florida in July, Donald Trump appeared to encourage Russia to commit a cybercrime against Hillary Clinton, saying he hoped Russian hackers could recover some of her deleted emails.

He has no problem invading his neighbors, but Russian President Vladimir Putin draws the line at the USA presidential candidate using inappropriate campaign tactics.

Earlier, U.S. President Barack Obama had said that he would discuss the hacking with Putin.

Putin maintains that his government is not involved with the continuing cyber espionage against US political organizations, suggesting that the culprits could be anyone.

With regard to the possible signing of a peace treaty between Japan and Russia, Abe said, “Let those of us in our generation courageously fulfill our responsibility”.

Putin said both candidates were using shock tactics and that playing “the anti-Russian card” was short-sighted.

“Anyway, we certainly don’t do such things on the state level”, he added.

Lehrich said the campaign still believes it was Russian Federation which hacked the Democratic National Committee’s e-mail in an embarassing episode just before the party’s nominating convention in July. “I’m resolved to make progress on the peace treaty and territorial issues by holding candid and thorough talks with President Putin”, Abe told reporters before he set off for Vladivostok.