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text: foreign policy russian president vladimir putin gives a speech at a valdai discussion club meeting of political scientists in sochi october   photo by afp 
  russian president vladimir putin has dismissed as hysteria claims by us officials that moscow is trying to influence the upcoming presidential election in america 
  speaking to foreign policy experts during a valdai discussion club meeting in sochi southern russia on thursday putin said washington was using russia as a distraction to cover up the fact that this years white house contenders had nothing to offer on real issues 
  hysteria has been whipped up in the united states about the influence of russia over the us presidential election putin said adding that so far no clear policies have been offered by the us political elite to tackle issues such as national debt and gun control 
  american officials and intelligence agencies have openly accused the kremlin of sponsoring hacking attacks against the us 
  this is while democratic presidential nominee hillary clinton and her campaign have gone even further claiming that russia was trying to rig the november election in favor of republican nominee donald trump us democratic presidential nominee hillary clinton l and republican nominee donald trump 
  during the last presidential debate last week clinton accused trump of having secret ties with moscow saying that putin would love to see a puppet president in the white house 
  its much simpler to distract people with socalled russian hackers spies and agents of influence does anyone really think that russia could influence the american peoples choice in any way is america a banana republic or what putin asked in his thursday speech 
  baffled by the release of a series of hacked emails that have uncovered the inner mechanics of the democratic partys campaign for the election the white house has stepped up its antirussian rhetoric american officials have even threatened russia with countermeasures 
  despite the general belief however trump has on many occasions called on russiaaccusers to either provide their evidence or stop making baseless assumptions about moscow 
  i dont know if theyre behind it and i think its public relations frankly the realestate mogul said wednesday do you know what bothers me i have nothing to do with russia 
  people are hacking all over the place and nobody knows they dont know if its russia they cant guarantee its russia and it may be he added loading