U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (Reuters / Carolyn Kaster / Pool)

US-Russian Relations ‘Close To Bottom, To Remain Low A Long Time’ – Lavrov

Moscow does not expect its relations with Washington to get better anytime soon, but on the other hand they won’t plunge any deeper, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov believes.

“We have gone down pretty deep. I really hope this downward movement of the level of our cooperation has reached some kind of a bottom,” he said on Monday in Moscow in an open lecture on Russia’s foreign relations.

Lavrov said the cold does not amount to a new Cold War, but the period is likely to be a long one.

“Of course it’s not a Cold War. The right question is: where do these relations go now?” he said. “Let’s leave it to historians. Certainly someone sometime will describe this period for the textbooks with a colorful term.”

He described the situation as “abnormal” and said Washington is the side that chose to escalate the tension.

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Update: Russian foreign minister sees no quick fix to U.S. ties -- Reuters

My Comment: My prediction .... U.S. - Russian relations will be in the deep freeze until the next U.S. Presidential election in 2016.