The results of the mid-term elections in the United States will not drastically affect the relations between Moscow and Washington. Congress will continue to put pressure on our country. Sanctions policy will not stop. This opinion is shared by Russian experts.. "All these changes are unlikely to affect the trajectory of Russian-American relations, in view of the very tough, strong bipartisan anti-Russian consensus that has taken shape," said Konstantin Blokhin, expert of the Center for Security Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in an interview with RT.. According to him, representatives of both political parties are Russophobic. "The difference is that the Democrats are more ideologized, more in line with the value approach, and the Republicans look at international relations more realistically," he stressed.. Political analyst of the international monitoring organization CIS-EMO Stanislav Byshok called the voting results "super-typical".

And therefore, according to him, no surprises in relation to the Russian Federation from the US authorities should be expected. "Approximately in 26-28 cases for 100 years or more in American history in mid-term elections in the first term of the president, if his party was in the majority in the lower house, then it lost this majority in favor of the opposite party in opposition. Both political forces will declare what happened as their victory ", - said Byshok. The only change not in favor of Russia may be the fact that the positive signals of Donald Trump to our country, if they repeat, will be even more decisively blocked by the legislators. "The configuration that has taken shape will further complicate the work of the Trump administration. Even when both there and the Republicans were in the majority, not everything went smoothly, "- said Byshok. According to the results of the mid-term congressional elections, the Republican Party secured a majority in the Senate, while losing the majority in the House of Representatives. US President Donald Trump congratulated Democratic leader in the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi for the fact that her political force won the most seats in the lower house. However, these congratulations can hardly be considered sincere..

It is not excluded that after the election, the "witch hunt" will resume with a new force. Both houses of Congress will again begin to explore the possibility of strengthening sanctions against the Russian Federation. In addition, the majority-received Democrats intend to reopen the investigation of the White House’s ties with the Kremlin.. This bodes well for neither our country nor Trump..