Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Putin called conditions of normalization of relations with the United States – RBC

Russian President Vladimir Putin at the forum VTB “Russia calling!”

Photo by: Ivan Sekretarev/AP

the United States should behave with Russia as partners, and then Russia will be ready to conduct a dialogue with Washington. This was stated by President Vladimir Putin at a forum “Russia calls!”. Current U.S. policy he called the “dictatorship”

Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking at the forum VTB “Russia calling!”, called conditions of normalization of relations with the United States. Broadcast of the forum leads the TV channel “Russia 24″.

the Head of state noted that Russia is concerned about the deterioration of relations with the United States.

“We are also concerned about the deterioration of Russian-American relations, but it is not our choice, but we never tried. On the contrary, we want to have friendly relations with such great countries as the USA, the leading economy in the world,” Putin said.

the President stated that with the current US administration it is difficult to conduct a dialogue. Now, according to Putin, his “virtually none”. “This is a dictatorship of some kind,” Putin said.

According to the President, the US administration first formulates what she needs, and then insists that it was fulfilled.

Putin added that Russia is ready for dialogue, but this requires “acting partner” and to respect each other’s interests.

Putin also reminded about the situation in Ukraine. “It’s not we brought up a coup d’état Ukraine. Did we do that? Our American partners in particular, and not hide the fact that largely they were behind it, financed the radical opposition, brought to the unconstitutional way of changing the government. Although it was possible to do everything differently,” he said. He added that the ex-President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych was willing to hold early elections.

the President stressed again that Russia is forced to protect the Russian speaking population in the Donbass and to respond to the desire of people living in Crimea to return to Russia. “Immediately began to spin the flywheel a new anti-Russian policy and the imposition of sanctions,” — said Putin.

He urged the West to influence the Kiev authorities to perform the Minsk agreement. “What prevents to do it, I don’t understand,” he said.

Relations between Russia and the United States have escalated in recent years. 3 October the US Department of state stopped working with Russia on Syria and laid on Moscow blame for the worsening situation in Aleppo. Moscow has rejected the charges, saying that the United States failed to fulfill its part of the agreements.

Later, the U.S. Secretary of state John Kerry said that the actions of the Syrian government forces and the Russian military must be investigated as war crimes.

October 6, the defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov told Russian military in Syria may use air defense, taken after the deterioration of relations with the United States on the Syrian issue. Konashenkov recalled, “the American strategists”, that is cover of the Russian military s-400 and s-300, “radius which may be surprising for any unidentified flying objects”. The defense Ministry said that any strikes on the territory controlled by the Syrian government constitute a threat to Russian soldiers.

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