"Vladimir Putin on Sunday shrugged off new US threats to retaliate against alleged Russian hackers, saying such statements only confirmed that Washington used cyber-attacks for political ends," Reuters reports. "Speaking after a summit of developing economies in India, the Russian president also said he believed that the hacking allegations [see earlier report] were mainly election campaign rhetoric by the White House, and that he hoped bilateral ties could improve after the US elections."
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