Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has blamed former President Barack Obama for the poor state of U.S.-Russian relations and accused the 44th president of handing his successor the product of his own failures. Lavrov told reporters Monday that Obama allowed his personal feelings on Russia get in the way of diplomacy, and suggested that the current administration is paying the price. “He had this quirk of putting personal before state,” Lavrov said, according to the state-backed Tass news agency. “He left Trump with a horrible legacy in relations with Russia, which still has a certain effect,” the top diplomat added. Relations between Washington and Moscow deteriorated during Obama’s tenure, driven by the Kremlin’s military interference in Ukraine and Syria, meddling in the 2016 presidential elections, and offer of asylum to fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden. The Obama administration imposed sanctions on Russia in response to perceived malign activities, to which Moscow retaliated by ordering the U.S. to scale-back its diplomatic presence in Russia and seizing U.S. diplomatic properties. In response, the U.S. ordered some Russian diplomatic staff out of the U.S. and seized properties in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and New York. Lavrov argued that the president “slammed the door” by… Read full this story
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