UK schoolboys pull off rare private audience with Russian President Putin

Clinton has said the cyberattack involved Russian intelligence services, and some officials suggested the Kremlin is trying to influence the US election in favor of Republican candidate Donald Trump.

“We can give our neighbors a lot and can get much from them”, Putin said.

“The two parties are likely to show that they are in favour of a peace treaty but will try not to publically express their disagreements about the Kuril islands”, Russian political analyst Konstantin Kalachev said.

The Russian government has been accused of trying to interfere in the upcoming USA elections, and a letter from Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid seen by the New York Times asks the FBI to investigate possible links to Donald Trump’s campaign.

A deal to cap oil production at the OPEC meeting in Algeria from September 26 to 28 would be “prudent” and “good”, Russian president Vladimir Putin told Bloomberg in an interview published earlier today.

There is also hope of agreeing a weekly 48-hour truce in the divided northern city of Aleppo to allow aid deliveries and medical evacuations. “But I want to tell you again, I don’t know anything about it, and on a state level, Russia has never done this”, the Russian leader pointed out.

The Democratic Party e-mails, now released by WikiLeaks, have severely hit the Hillary Clinton campaign.

Putin to Bloomberg news agency: “Does it even matter who hacked this data?”

He described Clinton and Trump as “very smart people” who “understand which buttons you need to press” to win support, calling it part of “the US political culture”. “I’m not sure that even our Foreign Ministry experts are sensitive enough”. He’ll be eager to show that Russian Federation hasn’t been left isolated by United States and European Union sanctions over the crisis in Ukraine, which together with the collapse in oil prices tipped his country into its worst recession in two decades. The resulting attacks, he said, are part of the US political culture.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin held an hour-long audience with students from the school about a week ago.