Vladimir Yermakov, Director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Department for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control, gave an interview to TASS touching on many points of U.S.-Russian strategic relations and other matters under the purview of his department.
First off, he said that the U.S.-Russia strategic security dialogue has been suspended by the U.S. “As of now, the situation indicates that there can be no talk at present about any prospects of talks with the United States on strategic stability. Unfortunately, all of Washington’s actions are taken in the diametrically opposite direction,” he said. “In any dialogue, especially in a strategic dialogue, at least the presence of an adequate partner is required. As of now, this dialogue is formally frozen by the American side,”
