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.
