Russia has admitted that it had criticised a lot of US policy during President Barack Obama's administration but said it was ‘not personal’.
"It's true that during the period of the presidency of Obama our relations seriously worsened on all levels," President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said here on Thursday.
Blaming Washington for bad relations, he said, “Over many years, the past decade, the US has repeatedly conducted rather unfriendly actions toward our country.”
Russia and the US have fundamentally different perspectives about the policies each country has adopted. The relationship between the two nations are considered to be at their lowest during the final months of the Obama administration.
Peskov also claimed that Moscow has credible information about possible involvement of US intelligence agencies, besides others, in cyber attacks on government servers.
According to Peskov, Russia was subjected to hacking attacks numerous times ‘everyday’, some of them from the US, Germany and Britain.
Peskov, however, has denied the allegations that Russia was involved in the cyber attacks in the 2016 US presidential election.
"Neither the Russian government nor the Kremlin nor personally (Russian President Vladimir) Putin nor military intelligence was behind those attacks even if they have taken place," Peskov said.
US intelligence agencies have published part of a classified report claiming that Putin had ordered an influence campaign in 2016 involving hackers to secure Donald Trump's victory in the presidential elections.
Moscow has denied any involvement, saying the allegations were ‘stupidity’.
