Moscow. June 16. INTERFAX-A qualitative change in relations between Moscow and Washington after the meeting of the leaders of the Russian Federation and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden, should not be expected, but now they have a chance to move into a more or less meaningful confrontation, chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy (SWAP) Fyodor Lukyanov told Interfax.
"Those immodest expectations that were, they were justified, those immodest fears that were-were not justified. There is and cannot be any qualitative change in relations, but they are moving from a state of madness and absolute chaos to a state of more or less meaningful confrontation, " he said, commenting on the results of the Russian-American summit held on Wednesday.
Commenting on Biden's words that Moscow and Washington should agree on some "rules of the game" in relations, Lukyanov said: "I do not think that we fully understand, because the rules of the game in relations between Russia and the United States are generally impossible to work out when they do not exist in the world as a whole. And in the world as a whole, I think, the rules of the game have become very modest."
