Putin dismisses accusations of meddling in US election
Even as WikiLeaks released another trove of internal documents from Hillary Clinton's campaign on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted his country was not involved in an effort to influence the US presidential election.
Last week, the US government formally accused Russia of launching a hacking campaign to "interfere with the US election process." Clinton's campaign, which has charged the Kremlin is trying to help Republican Donald Trump win the White House on Nov. 8, took its allegations a step further on Tuesday when John Podesta, chairman of the Democratic nominee's campaign, accused the Trump campaign of colluding with Russia.
In Moscow, Putin said nothing in the hacking scandal is in Russia's interests and said all sides in the U.S. presidential campaign were misusing rhetoric about Russia for their own purposes.
"They started this hysteria, saying this (hacking) is in Russia's interests, but this has nothing to do with Russia's interests," Putin told a business forum.
Putin said his government would work with whoever won the U.S. election, "if, of course, the new U.S. leader wishes to work with our country."
