Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told CNN about the key issues of the Russian-US relations.
Peskov, who has been a spokesman and top aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin for almost two decades, said that Russia and the US are "losing potential by blaming everything on Earth on each other".
"We don't have a proper understanding of perspectives of future of our bilateral relationship," Peskov said. "We certainly would expect our contacts to be more frequent, more in-depth, in order to sit and then talk to each other to try to understand, because we had quite a significant pause in our bilateral relations".
According to Peskov, Russia will not initiate the discussion on the matter of easing the anti-Russian sanctions since the United States is the country which imposed these measures and it should initiate dialogue on the issue. "Russia will never initiate putting this issue on the agenda," Peskov said.
Peskov also said that Moscow hopes that anti-Russian "hysteria" in Washington will come to an end.
According to a recent CNN/ORC poll, 65% of the respondents support the idea of appointing a special prosecutor for the probe into alleged Russian interference in the US election and ties to the President Donald Trump campaign.
"Yes, we do worry…If you load the public opinion with a huge burden of fake news, of these fake blamings on Russia, if you repeat every day numerous times that Russia is guilty of everything, Russia is interfering, Russia is trying to hack everything in our country and everything that goes wrong in our country is because of Russia, if you repeat it… than you will have more than 65 percent. So, we consider it a real danger for the future of our bilateral relationship. We sincerely want to see this hysteria coming to its logic end," Peskov said.
