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| Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov shrugged off the accusations by the Hillary Clinton campaign that Russia was involved in the embarrassing leak of emails. File photo http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/email-hacking-claims-absurd-says-russia/article8902663.ece?ref=topnavwidget&utm_source=topnavdd&utm_medium=topnavdropdownwidget&utm_campaign=topnavdropdown |
The Kremlin on Tuesday dismissed allegations that Russia was behind a
hack of the Democratic National Committee’s e-mails as absurd, mocking
what it called obsessive references to Russia in the U.S. presidential
campaign. “This absurd news was immediately refuted by the family of the
well-known presidential candidate,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov
told journalists, referring to Republican presidential nominee Donald
Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov earlier shrugged off the
accusations by the Hillary Clinton campaign that Russia was involved in
the embarrassing leak of emails.
Ahead of meeting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Laos, Mr. Lavrov said: “I don’t want to use four-letter words.”
Mr. Peskov also rubbished a report that Mr. Trump’s foreign policy
adviser Carter Page had met Kremlin chief of staff Sergei Ivanov in
Russia this month to speak at the graduation ceremony of the New
Economic School in Moscow.
Mr. Peskov said he had asked Mr. Ivanov about the allegation, adding
that the Kremlin chief of staff had responded that “he does not comment
on such delusional reports”. “We are still seeing attempts to
obsessively use the topic of Russia during the U.S. electoral campaign,”
Mr. Peskov said.
“Unfortunately Russia is being used in the electoral campaign in the U.S. Unfortunately this traditional game is continuing.
Keywords: U.S.-Russia ties, e-mail hacking row
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