In modern Russia, the "evil of the Soviet Union" continues to live, and therefore it has no place in the "big seven". This was stated by Senator-Republican Lindsey Graham. According to Graham, Trump's call for Russia to return to G7 would be a mistake of the West. "The Soviet Union may have collapsed, but the evil that it embodies, lives and lives in Putin's Russia.
He (Russian President Vladimir Putin - Prim.. red. ) not a friend of the United States. He destroys democracy everywhere and tries to do it in our backyard, "the senator said on ABC News. In turn, British Prime Minister Teresa May believes that the G7 can still become the G8 again, RIA Novosti reports.. However, she set such a condition for Moscow that the return of Russia to the negotiating table is becoming purely hypothetical: it is necessary to recognize the annexation of the Crimea as an "occupation".