03 June, 2017
"I can imagine that some do it deliberately, staging a chain of attacks in such a way as to cast Russian Federation as the origin of such an attack", Putin said.
"It's quite easy to do technologically", he said.
"And I should say that we should be grateful to President Trump because today in Moscow, I hear they're saying it snowed and it's raining here, very cold, so now we can blame him for that and the American imperialism".
"(Artists) may act on behalf of their country, they wake up in good mood and paint things. "The hackers are the same".
"If they're patriotically minded, they start making their contribution", Putin said in a meeting with global journalists on the sidelines of his annual economic forum in St. Petersburg.
"I'm deeply convinced that no hackers can radically influence another country's election campaign".
The FBI is now investigating Russian influence on the presidential election and any possible collusion between Trump's campaign and Moscow.
Trump said, according to the Paris Climate deal terms, China will be allowed many coal plants, and India will be allowed to double its coal production by 2020, but not the U.S. "I will be demanding in my exchanges with Russian Federation", the 39-year-old president told reporters at the end of the G7 summit on Saturday, where the Western leaders agreed to consider new measures against Moscow if the situation in Ukraine did not improve", He added. The Prime Minister thanked the President for being with India as history had witnessed that there had been no ups and downs in Indo-Russian relations.
"Does it even matter who hacked this data?"
In the nearest admission to interference in foreign election to date, Putin said hackers may cyber attacks against critics if they "feel" like it.
In St Petersburg, PM Modi attended the 18th India-Russia annual Summit, as Vladimir Putin sought to burnish a fragile recovery at the Kremlin's economic showcase despite tensions with the West.
"We will strive to build an "energy bridge" between our states and expand bilateral relations in all areas of energy cooperation, including nuclear, hydrocarbon, hydel and renewable energy sources and in improving energy efficiency", the document titled "A vision for the 21st Century" said.
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.Putin said that economic restrictions against Russian Federation have had "zero effect", predicting that the current strain in relations will ease, because "it's counterproductive and harmful for all".
When Putin visited Japan in December for talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, he mentioned the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty and emphasized the military importance of the Northern Territories to Russian Federation.
Russian Federation and Japan never signed a peace treaty after the four islets in the Kuril archipelago fell under Soviet control at the end of World War II.