Russian's foreign minister says U.S. allegations of hacking are 'flattering'

The United States formally accused Russia of election-related cyberattacks, including hacking the Democratic National Committee, last Friday, but Moscow has not only rejected such accusations, it has taken them as a compliment.

"It's flattering, of course, to get this kind of attention," Russia's foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, told CNN. "For a 'regional power,' as President Obama called us some time ago, now everybody in the United States is saying that it is Russia ... is running the nation's presidential debate."

Lavrov maintained that "we have not seen a single fact, a single proof" connecting Russia to the DNC hacking. But when CNN's Christiane Amanpour tried to clarify that Lavrov "denies" the hacks, he interrupted.

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"No, we did not deny this," he said. "They did not prove it."

Oh, got it. Watch Lavrov's interview, below. Jeva Lange