Oliver Stone Weighs in on Russia Issue

Academy Award winner Oliver Stone secured what journalists, news organizations, and even other world leaders have long coveted: extended, unprecedented access to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The day after Showtime® completed the broadcast of its four-part documentary, a series of interviews between iconic filmmaker Oliver Stone and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Hot Books, a division of Skyhorse Publishing, has published The Putin Interviews: Oliver Stone Interviews Vladimir Putin, the complete transcript of the original interviews, containing additional content not included in the Showtime series.

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No topics are off limits in the interviews, which first took place during Stone’s trips to meet with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in Moscow, and most recently after the election of President Donald Trump. Among other revelations, Putin claims that:

• Russia wants peace with the US, and that he “wants to restore American-Russian relations.”
• Putin wants to sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty with the US.
• The Russian hacking story is really about internal politicking in the US and has nothing to do with Russia.
• Russia is looking to partner with the US to fight terrorism.
• Statements that Russia attempted to influence the outcome of the 2016 US election are “all lies.”
• The US media does not distinguish between the election hacking and the hacked emails from Wikileaks, and they ought to be treated separately.

“Any talk about our influencing the outcome of the election in the United States, all these are lies.”
—Vladimir Putin

Stone also prods Putin to discuss Russia’s involvement with conflicts in Syria, Ukraine, and elsewhere, his rise to power, and his relationships with Presidents Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump.

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SOURCE Hot Books