"It's one thing to speak respectfully - in fact the leaders of great powers cannot speak in another way, this is out of the question, and another to strongly disagree with each other on something. And here of course, unfortunately, one can talk about a very serious discrepancy in conceptual approaches on extremely important issues. It was Putin who spoke about our red lines, about our national interests, while Biden spoke about his unwilligness to recognize red lines," the Kremlin spokesman noted.
Biden or Trump?
"Don't forget how many sanctions were imposed [on Russia] under Donald Trump," Peskov said, adding that it was always worth keeping in mind that Trump is not a professional politician. "He was a phenomenon that burst into American politics, made a lot of noise, a lot of wind, and left politics. Biden is a professional politician who went through all the thorns of US politics from the very bottom to the very top. Therefore, his experience, his professionalism, is also difficult to overestimate," the spokesman said.