Putin gave clear response to US hacking allegations

US officials said that Putin had supervised his intelligence agencies' hacking of the US presidential election


Reuters December 16, 2016

RUSSIA: The Kremlin said on Friday that President Vladimir Putin had given President Barack Obama "a really clear response" to US allegations that Moscow had interfered in the US presidential election by hacking Democratic Party organisations.

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Russia's TASS news agency cited Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov as telling reporters in Tokyo that Putin had explained Russia's stance on the issue to Obama on the sidelines of the G20 summit in September.

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"There was a tete-a-tete conversation and different themes were discussed," Ushakov was cited as saying. "This theme was touched upon. A really clear reply was given by our side which perhaps did not fit with what Obama was trying to explain to us."

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COMMENTS (3)

Solomon2 | 7 years ago | Reply While Putin is far from being Mr. Clean the Obama/Hillary line making him out as a boogeybear in the U.S. election isn't sustainable and maybe not even credible. One more month of Obama and a new brooms sweeps clean.
Talha | 7 years ago | Reply SO where can i find 'the very clear response' of Mr Putin in this news piece?
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