Putin Says Russia Didn’t Interfere in Brexit Referendum
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President Vladimir Putin said Russia didn’t interfere in the U.K.’s referendum on leaving the European Union, whose result showed that Britons want to be independent.
The vote to leave may be the result of “arrogance and a superficial approach to vital questions” shown by U.K. leaders toward difficulties in their own country and in the EU, Putin told reporters Friday in Uzbekistan at the end of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit. While Russia “attentively followed” events in the U.K., it behaved “very properly” and “didn’t even try to influence” the referendum, he said.