普京感谢美方提供恐袭情报

Russian president Vladimir Putin thanked his US counterpart Donald Trump on Sunday for a tip-off provided by the CIA alerting him to a terrorist plot to attack St Petersburg, according to Moscow officials.

据莫斯科官员表示，俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔?普京(Vladimir Putin)周日对美国总统唐纳德?特朗普(Donald Trump)表示了感谢，因为美国中央情报局(CIA)提供了恐怖分子密谋袭击圣彼得堡的情报。

The Kremlin said in a statement following a call between the leaders on Sunday that the CIA had passed on information that helped detain terrorists who planned to set off explosions at St Petersburg’s Kazan cathedral and other public places in the city.

在两位领导人周日通话之后，克里姆林宫在一份声明中表示，中情局提供的情报帮助抓获了策划在圣彼得堡喀山大教堂以及该市其他公共场所引爆炸弹的恐怖分子。

“The information received from the CIA was enough to locate and detain the criminals,” it said.

声明称：“来自中情局的情报足以定位和抓捕这些犯罪分子。”

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders confirmed two leaders spoke and said more information would be released shortly.

白宫发言人萨拉?桑德斯(Sarah Sanders)证实两位领导人进行了通话，并表示很快就会发布更多信息。

The public avowal of co-operation between intelligence agencies marks an unusual attempt to undercut what Mr Putin referred to last week as “this spy hysteria”, a reference to whether Moscow intelligence networks deliberately sought to subvert US rule of law and democracy in the 2016 presidential elections.

公开承认两国情报机构之间合作，标志着两国不同寻常地试图淡化普京上周所说的“这场间谍歇斯底里”，当时普京说的是俄罗斯情报网络被指在2016年美国总统大选期间蓄意企图颠覆美国法治和民主制度。

In the telephone call, the second between the two men in the space of four days, Mr Putin also promised to pass on information acquired by Russian intelligence services “that concerns terrorist threats to the US and its citizens,” the Kremlin press service said.

克里姆林宫新闻办公室表示，在这次通话期间（这是两人四天来第二次通话），普京还承诺俄罗斯情报机构将向美国同行提供“涉及针对美国及其公民的恐袭情报”。

Senior US officials have described relations between the US and Russia as at a historic low since the Cold War, mired in allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 US elections that saw Mr Trump secure the presidency, as well as marked tensions over Syria, Ukraine, Afghanistan and North Korea.

美国高级官员认为，美国与俄罗斯之间的关系处于自冷战以来的历史最低水平，受到俄罗斯干预2016美国大选指控——特朗普在这次选举中当选为美国总统——以及围绕叙利亚、乌克兰、阿富汗和朝鲜的明显紧张的影响。

Both countries have ejected each other’s diplomats this year in a series of escalatory diplomatic stand-offs, as Russia has sought to cope with the fallout of additional sanctions lobbed at it both by the outgoing Obama administration and Congress since its invasion of Ukraine.

两国今年在一系列不断升级的外交对峙中相互驱逐对方的外交官。同时俄罗斯设法应对奥巴马(Obama)政府在任期最后阶段以及美国国会自俄入侵乌克兰以来施加的额外制裁的冲击波。

Mr Trump himself has rarely criticised Russia, however, instead describing the high-profile probe into Russian political interference led by former FBI chief Robert Mueller as a “witch hunt” and expressing repeated hopes for improved relations.

然而，特朗普本人很少批评俄罗斯，而是将联邦调查局(FBI)前局长罗伯特?米勒(Robert Mueller)领导的高调的通俄案调查称为“政治迫害”，并且多次表示希望改善两国关系。