Russia's Chair of State Duma Committee for Foreign Affairs, Leonid Slutsky, considered that the resignation of US National Security Adviser Michael Flynn will not affect the Russian-US relation on a broader level, however "it looks like a negative sign".
The Russian lawmaker added that relations between Moscow and Washington "are not very meaningful already." "They should be improved on every level, including the parliamentary one. I hope that some positive trends will emerge," he added.
Russia's news agency Tass said that Slutsky stated that "regardless of the Flynn issue, the US has become much accustomed to marginalizing Russia and it has not yet dropped its habit. It is not easy to turn the state machine around. Let us hope that Trump’s rhetoric will be translated into a positive practice. We will work on that," he said.
In his opinion, "all this situation could be aimed at making the US establishment continue to consider Russia as a strategic opponent." According to media reports, US President Donald Trump has accepted the resignation of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn who acknowledged that he had inadvertently provided US Vice President Mike Pence with "incomplete information" on his contacts with Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak. Retired Army General Keith Kellogg, a top policy adviser for Trump’s presidential campaign, has been appointed acting national security adviser.
Source: QNA
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