Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, reflecting on the combined but uneven evolving state of U.S.-Russian relations, said in an interview with Rossiya-1 on Sunday, Aug. 10, “some sprouts of common sense are appearing in the dialogue with the U.S., which have been sorely lacking in recent months and years.”
He, at the same time, discussed Russia’s recent decision to lift its self-imposed ban on deploying intermediate range missiles, ascribing the Russian change in policy to the need to respond to what “the Americans and their allies, especially the European warmongers, are undertaking.” In his interview with Rossiya-1, Ryabkov made it clear that besides the now-famous Oreshnik, Russia has developed other advanced missile technologies.
