When Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov arrives in Washington today for talks with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson—and an Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump—the moment will hardly be ripe for diplomacy between Russia and the United States.
Washington is in an uproar over Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey amid his bureau’s probe into contacts between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin during the 2016 election. U.S. and Russian officials have been trading harsh words since Trump ordered a missile strike in Syria last month. The Kremlin recently declared that U.S.-Russia relations are at “their worst period since …read more
Source: European Voice
