Lavrov allowed times worse than the Cold War in relations with the United States

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in an interview with RIA Novosti, said that if there were no changes in relations between Moscow and Washington, then both states would live in conditions of a "cold war or worse."

According to him, the United States must stop its futile attempts to revive a unipolar world and create conditions under which other countries will be subordinate to the West. As the minister noted, Washington must fulfill its obligations prescribed in the UN Charter, "otherwise we will not succeed."

“Well, if not, that’s their choice. This means that we will live in conditions, as you said, either of the Cold War, or even worse. I believe that during the Cold War the tension was, of course, very serious, risky situations and crises arose more than once. But there was mutual respect, which is now in short supply,” the Foreign Minister said.

Lavrov noted that RUSSIA and the United States could return to normal relations, and Moscow, for its part, offered Washington to nullify the diplomatic conflict, but the new US administration did not agree to this. “I mentioned this to [State Department Secretary Anthony] Blinken. Without imposing. He just said that the obvious step for us to be able to work normally would be to reset everything that [44th President of the United States] Barack Obama started when, a couple of weeks before leaving the presidency, slamming the door, venting his annoyance, arrested Russian property, violating all the Vienna Conventions, expelled Russian diplomats,” he said.