The initial Russian response to yesterday’s speech on arms control by US National Security Advisor Jak Sullivan is, so far, highly negative. “It is an obvious attempt to present the US position in a way that is more attractive to the international community than it has actually been shaped to date. And in addition to all these slogans, it contains an undeniably destructive charge and a mindset of maintaining and strengthening American superiority in some areas with a claim to complete dominance, to further break the balance of interests,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told reporters in Moscow this morning.