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Interview of Ambassador of Russia to the United States Alexander Darchiev with Kommersant newspaper
(November 19, 2025)
Key points:
🇷🇺🇺🇸 The importance of Vladimir Putin’s first face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump after the latter returned to the White House lies in the fact that both leaders negotiated as peers, trying to identify points of overlapping interests. A stalled dialogue does not mean a halted dialogue. Contacts continue at different levels and call for patience and persistence.
🔹The bumps and pitfalls in a dialogue that is free from illusions and - I’ll say it again - is conducted mostly privately with just a few media outlets covering it, should not obscure the main point which is that, as great powers, Russia and the United States are destined to come to terms when the issue is about non-confrontational coexistence.
🔹 The dialogue on irritants has been ongoing, and certain improvements have been achieved. Sure enough, they do nothing to change the restrictive system imposed under Joe Biden, but they do alleviate its most egregious elements.
🔹 However, progress in addressing the underlying causes of abnormal bilateral relations which is the key prerequisite for getting our relations genuinely normalised as envisioned by the presidents, has stalled.
❗️ The State Department flat out refuses to discuss returning six seized diplomatic properties owned by the Russian Federation as private property. <...> The American side ties serious discussions of this matter in with a settlement in Ukraine that suits its interests. It rejects our proposal to resume direct air travel, which Washington suspended after the start of the special military operation, tying it to Ukraine settlement as well.
🔹 The US administration has so far failed to provide an official clarification, as to whether the US president meant [saying that the United States "very soon" will conduct nuclear tests] full-scale tests involving the detonation of a nuclear warhead, which, if it ends up taking place, will bury what remains of the arms control regime that has been largely dismantled by the Americans themselves, or whether he was referring to tests involving new delivery systems. This ambiguity provides ample room for speculation and all kinds of conspiracy theories.
🔹The US efforts to obfuscate the most critical issue of international security and strategic stability do nothing to build mutual trust and raise doubts as to whether the US approach is genuinely responsible.
🔹This kind of turnaround tactics by the current administration are driven by the desire to secure military superiority for the United States. Moscow, however, takes them in stride in light of the groundbreaking and unmatched innovative weapons systems it has created in recent years, which reliably ensure our country’s security.
🔹 We have never turned down an open dialogue among peers in this vital area, provided Russia’s national interests are strictly upheld. It must be understood, however, that the conditions for launching such a dialogue will materialise when we see further improvements in Washington’s policy towards Russia.
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