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Russia-Germany relations are “important to both nations and of great importance for stability and security on the European continent,” the Kremlin said in a letter. In it, Putin also hopes that Russia and Germany will cooperate to solve international problems in 2021.
Relations between Berlin and Moscow are currently as strained as they have been for a long time, due in part to a poison attack on the Kremlin’s criticism of Alexei Navalna and a programmer’s attack on the German Bundestag in 2015.
Russia denies having anything to do with it. As a result of these crimes, the EU has imposed sanctions on Russia, to which Moscow, in turn, has responded by criminal means, mainly against German officials.
According to the Kremlin, Putin has sent dozens of New Year’s letters, including to outgoing US President Donald Trump and his elected successor, Joe Biden.
Russia and the United States, while respecting their mutual interests, can do a lot together for stability and security in the world, it is said here.
Putin said he was convinced “that Russia and the United States could do much to strengthen stability and security at the regional and global levels by developing relations in a spirit of equality and mutual interest,” the statement said.
The Russian leader stressed that “the coronavirus pandemic and other challenges the world will face in the coming years” highlighted the “need for broad cooperation.”
The Russian leader also congratulated outgoing US President D. Trump and wished all Americans happiness.
The last major nuclear disarmament agreement between the two countries, the New Start Agreement, expires in early February. Putin has repeatedly warned of a new arms race. However, no agreement has yet been reached on an extension of the document restricting strategic nuclear weapons.
The Russian government said last week that the Russian government, according to Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Riabkov, did not expect “anything good” from future US President Joe Biden.
“We don’t expect anything good, it’s obvious,” Riabkov said in an interview with Russia’s Interfax agency on Wednesday.
“It would be strange to expect something good from people, many of whose careers are based on hostility towards Russia and dirt in my country,” the deputy minister said.
Biden was declared the winner four days after the November 3 election. Russian President Putin said a little later that he would receive the official election results before congratulating Biden.
It was only when Biden received 306 votes out of 538 in the so-called Electoral College on December 14 that Putin sent a congratulatory message to the Democrat. In it, the Kremlin leader expressed his conviction that Russia and the United States, “despite differences of opinion, can solve many problems and challenges” in the world.
“For my part, I am ready to cooperate and contact you,” Putin said in a telegram.
Relations between Russia and the United States are very tense. Moscow, among other things, is accused of interfering in the 2016 US presidential election to help defeat Trump.
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