Can Moscow and Washington resume dialogue and, if so, what consequences could this have for the war in Ukraine? This question is now on everyone’s lips in Russia after Vladimir Putin’s first statements on the subject. Thursday evening, November 7, the Russian president congratulated Donald Trump on his victory in the American presidential election and said he was ready to “work with him”, writes the online newspaper Lenta.ru.
Just the day before, its spokesperson, Dmitri Peskov, had ruled out this possibility, recalling that the United States could be considered a country at war with Russia, due to the support it provided to Ukraine. Questioned a little later by journalist Pavel Zaroubine from the television channel Rossia 1, he had to backtrack. But the congratulations from the Russian government are now official… because “everything the president says is official, of course”.
It remains to be seen whether this cordial exchange is likely to change the situation. The Russian press remains divided. Echoing the president’s remarks, the popular newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda underlines that Vladimir Putin made, for the first time, openly flattering remarks about D
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