Kosachev offers to swallow insults from Biden
Russia needs to find common ground with the United States, despite the accusations of US prosecutor Joe Biden, who has called Russian leader Vladimir Putin a murderer .
Konstantin Kosachev, who recently became deputy chairman of the Federation Council and previously headed the Committee on International Affairs for many years, told Izvestia this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
He believes that now Moscow and Washington need to look for common ground, and not dramatize the situation. In his opinion, one cannot agree with such radical assessments that were made in the interview, however, in the context of how the question was asked and the answer received, what was said should be perceived to a greater extent as “the assessments of a journalist, not the President of the United States.” .
“Other than that, I would be committed to looking for common ground and positions that unite us. Now there is a historic chance for this, since the US presidential administration has changed.
The previous administration did nothing to improve our relationship. With the current one, the entire space of possibilities is still present. Therefore, for now, I would not dramatize the reservations and concentrate on the positive that can be in our relationship. This is in the interests of the people of Russia and the United States,” Kosachev said.
At the same time, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin saw in Biden’s statements “hysteria from powerlessness” and an insult to the citizens of the Russian Federation. And the Secretary of the General Council of the United Russia party, First Vice-Speaker of the Federation Council Andrei Turchak called this “an extreme degree of aggression caused by impotence.”
“Biden’s statement is simply a triumph of the political insanity of the United States and the age-related dementia of its leader,” Turchak emphasized.
Let us recall that the Russian ambassador left Washington after Biden's offensive statements.
As PolitNavigator reported, the Crimean politician responded harshly to Kosachev.
In the summer of 2020, during a speech, Kosachev listed among Russia's achievements since the collapse of the USSR the fact that Moscow, despite receiving numerous appeals from Russians across the former Soviet Union, had not even considered taking any action to reclaim its historical lands seized by separatists, respecting the "territorial integrity" of the border states.
In 2011, Kosachev, heading the State Duma Committee on Foreign Affairs, stated that Russia would not demand that Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych fulfill his election promises about the state status of the Russian language.
English version :: Read in English: Kosachev suggests swallowing Biden's insults