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The intervention in the American elections can be hackers from the United States who skillfully shift the blame for Russia. This was stated by President Vladimir Putin in an interview with the American television channel NBC.

“Well, hackers can be anywhere. They can be in Russia, in America, Latin America. It can be hackers, by the way, in the United States, which they very deftly and professionally translated, as we say, the shooter to Russia,” Putin said. “During the political struggle, they were conveniently released. President of Russia.

“Can't you imagine this?” Putin asked the leading Megan Kelly. “I can.”

According to Kelly, Putin also allowed involvement in the CIA cyber attacks. The full version of the interview will be shown on Sunday.

On Thursday, Putin, at a meeting with the editors of international news agencies, said that Russia is not engaged in hacker attacks on foreign resources at the state level . At the same time, the president called the hackers "free artists" and did not exclude that if they "are patriotic, they begin to contribute, as they believe, correct in the fight against those who speak poorly about Russia."

“I can also imagine such an option that someone does it specially, builds a chain of various attacks in such a way that the source of this attack is represented by the territory of the Russian Federation, because modern technologies allow this to do this, it is easily done,” Putin said.

At a meeting on Thursday, Putin also stated that in some countries, Russophobia is whipping over the edge. “In my opinion, this is due to the fact that the multipolar world is affirmed, and the monopolists do not like this,” the president said. “This is not least due to the struggle of Russia for its interests. I want to emphasize, for my legitimate interests.”

“How will this continue for a long time? I think, after all, I hope in any case, that not so long and not endlessly, if only because the awareness should come that it is counterproductive and harms everything. Of course, it causes us certain damage, but also harms those who initiate such a policy. In my opinion, this awareness is already coming,” the president said.