After massive hacking allegations by the West against Russian IT spies, Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin has called on the US to engage in a cyber security dialogue. “We understand that because of the election campaign the politicians in the United States don’t have time for it,” said the president on Thursday at an expert forum. But he hopes that the next US administration will react to his proposal. It would be regrettable if the USA did not participate, said the Kremlin chief.

Cyber ​​attacks Shortly before, the EU had imposed new sanctions on Russia for a hacker attack on the German Bundestag in 2015. Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) had spoken of the “hard evidence” of Russian involvement and of an “outrageous” process a long time ago with a view to the results of the Federal Prosecutor’s investigation into the attack.

Putin suggested that Forum broadcast on state television suggests “common rules and review tools” if a country believes someone is interfering in internal affairs. US secret services had only accused Russia and Iran on Wednesday of