The Russian Foreign Ministry considers the anti-Russian sanctions of Barack Obama a sharp irritant in the relations between the two countries. Deputy Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergei Ryabkov in a conversation with US Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Shannon said that to normalize relations between the two countries it is necessary to eliminate the irritants created under the former US President Barack Obama, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Facebook. "A thorough discussion took place on a wide range of issues in the bilateral sphere of relations. On the Russian side, it was stressed that in order to normalize them, a number of acute irritants created by the previous administration of Barack Obama, which in violation of international law, even went to the actual expropriation of objects of diplomatic representations of Russia in the US, which are our state property and possessing immunity, are required to be eliminated, "they wrote In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Recall, the Obama administration in late December 2016 imposed sanctions against nine Russian institutions, companies and individuals, including against the GRU and the FSB, for interfering in the elections and pressure on US diplomats working in Russia. Trump: The US does not get along with Russia at all.

Original article: In Russia, the conditions for the normalization of relations with the US.