Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov on Thursday downplayed the cooling of relations between Moscow and Washington after the United States threatened a new round of sanctions.
When asked during a press conference in Moscow whether the positive trend in U.S.–Russia relations had faded, Ryabkov said he disagreed but said that the Trump administration was acting erratically.
“No, I do not agree. I think that the current U.S. administration is acting erratically on this issue, as well as on many other issues. I would not presume to say that they are firmly following a once-and-for-all established course. We are not dramatizing this,” he said, according to Russian news agency RIA….