Putin's aide: foot-dragging in Russia-US relations unacceptable

The US political standoff has taken such a feverish turn that it is undermining White House foreign policy and relations with Moscow, Russian Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov said at the opening ceremony for the Primakov Reading Forum.

Russia’s presidential aide said that "the two major nuclear states has not started" normal work yet. "Not only things that concern Moscow and Washington are at stake, but solving international issues that are important for global security and global stability," Ushakov stressed.

He said that the Russian side will wait until the passions raging within the US die down, but it 'views this foot-dragging as unacceptable.

According to Ushakov, a great number of problems will not be solved "if the US continues turning away from Russia and, much less, behaving in an openly provoking anti-Russian manner." "The international community will not benefit from it, for sure," TASS cited the presidential aide assaying.

In light of this, Ushakov reiterated Yevgeny Primakov’s words that "it is not necessary to be friends with all countries of the world, but it is possible and necessary to work together.".