Russia’s politicians and media, U.S. The winner of the election is pessimistic about any prospect of forcing relations between Moscow and Washington to improve.
With Democratic contender Joe Biden ahead of President Donald Trump in the fight for the White House, the spirit from Russia is that whoever wins will present difficulties for the Kremlin.
Leonid Slutsky, chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on International Affairs, wrote on Facebook that there was an “anti-Russian” agenda going on within US politics and, who won, “there is no need to expect any change in Russian for the better. American relations and that is very unfortunate.” “
Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the Upper House Federation Council’s foreign affairs committee, said the 2020 U.S. The threat of Russian interference in the election has “never been confirmed.”
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Writing on Facebook, he said the Senate race would have a more significant impact on US-Russia relations. “Let’s not forget that in recent years the White House’s policy on Russia came not from the presidential administration, but from the mood of Congress.”
If Congress realizes that Russia is the current U.S. If problems are not rooted, they believe “a lot will change.”
Vyacheslav Nikonov, a deputy in the State Duma of the ruling United Russia party, wrote on his Facebook page that both Biden and Trump were ready to fight to the end “at all costs” but wondered: “What does the American election drama bring to Russia and the world?”
He said Trump has promised to drain the ‘swamp’, but it is likely that the ‘swamp’ will erase Trump. ‘
On Thursday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he would not comment on the US election, saying “it is impossible to comment in the current situation” and that doing so would be “like an ox’s red rag.”
However, he said the U.S. Uncertainty in “can have potential negative consequences for global affairs.
U.S. for Moscow-Washington relations in Russian media outlets. The importance of the election was also analyzed. An option in a mass-circulation newspaper Moskowski Komosolets He said Tuesday that there are no good options for Russia regardless of whether Trump or Biden wins.
It describes how the “boat of Russian-US relations” began to sink under the previous administration and “hit rock bottom under Trump”, but relations were always likely to get worse.
“If Biden’s victory could mean deepening the ctions and increasing approvals and other pressures.” “For Russia, the American presidential campaign is a choice between bad and very bad. Whatever happens, our politicians will not drink champagne. Strong drinks are more appropriate.”
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Meanwhile, business publishing RBC The Kremlin has publicly announced its readiness to work with whoever wins, with Russia’s political elite concerned that Biden’s victory is “bad news.”
“There is uncertainty as to whether concrete action will be taken against Biden’s harsh rhetoric against Russia,” it said.
An article on the front page of a newspaper Commercial Evaluating the election more broadly, he said that “this was not a victory for Democrat B Biden as predicted by almost all opinion polls.”
It added, “The only guaranteed result of the election is that the divisions in the nation that stunned the nation four years ago will continue to expand.”
However, Alexei Navalny, a well-known opposition leader recovering from a Novichok poisoning attack, said the U.S. Saw the virtue in the uncertainty of the election and compared the process with his own country.
He tweeted, “Woke up on Twitter to check who won. It’s not clear yet. Now this is what I call the election.”
The graphic provided by Statista shows the following key points that the U.S. Voters took note in the ballot.
