"I would not say that the relations faced greater crisis that was in the period when administration of Barack Obama was leaving. But relations are improving with major difficulties. Actually, we have not achieved the necessary dynamics for improvement," Ryabkov told in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper.
"It includes very serious principle disagreements concerning a number of international problems. We see what was happening and is ongoing in Syria. It is not about the fact that we have different understanding about a legitimate government and how to develop fight with terrorism. There are disagreements on the issues of strategic stability and others," Ryabkov told the newspaper.
Ryabkov stressed that the current state of affairs resulted from different factors, but one of the most important of them is "harsh opposition" of different political circles in the United States which could not accept the victory of Donald Trump in the US elections and use the issue of relations with Kremlin for its internal political struggle.
"The issue of relations with Russia is used by a number of leading US media, politological centers, influential figures from the Democratic party and some separate representatives of the Republicans as a tool for internal struggle," Ryabkov said.
