Putin says Russia doesn’t lose need to enhance ties with US Moscow, Dec 23 (IANS) Russia has not misplaced the need to enhance its relations with the US, Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned in an interview. “All the pieces could be finished if there’s a need. We have now by no means misplaced this need,” Putin advised Pavel Zarubin on Sunday, a journalist of Russia’s state TV and radio firm VGTRK, whereas answering a query in regards to the prospects for enhancing Russia-US relations, stories Xinhua information company. The Russian President was responding to a query in regards to the risk for Russia and the USA to normalise their relations, as reported by the Russian information company TASS.
Putin mentioned Russia is able to construct relations with different international locations, supplied that such efforts don’t compromise Russian pursuits. “If we set up relations with somebody, we are going to achieve this solely primarily based on the pursuits of the Russian state,” he mentioned. Putin drew from the 19th and 20th centuries to emphasize the adjustments in worldwide relations and recalled that after the Crimea Battle of 1853-1856, when a sequence of restrictions have been imposed on Russia, then-Overseas Minister of the Russian Empire Alexander Gorchakov despatched out a letter with the next phrases:
“Russia just isn’t indignant. Russia is concentrating.” “Regularly, as Russia was concentrating, it returned all its rights within the Black Sea as effectively, grew stronger and so forth,” mentioned Putin. Final week, Russia had issued an advisory for its residents warning them to not journey to the US and different western international locations claiming they could possibly be “hunted” by the authorities in these states, Al Jazeera reported. Ministry of Overseas Affairs spokeswoman Maria Zakharova was cited by the outlet as describing the US-Russia relations as “on the verge of rupture”.
