Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov came up with a new term for describing the actions of Western leaders. About this in Facebook reported by the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharov.
“Sergey Lavrov introduced a new political science term – friction diplomacy of Western leaders,” said Zakharov. In his post, she led the words of the Minister from the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Goncharov Foundation, where he drew attention to the fact that “a new phenomenon appeared in the arsenal of a number of Western leaders: a fake, and sometimes friction diplomacy.”
Earlier in relations between Russia and the United States, a new crisis has come after the US President Joe Biden in an interview with the ABC News TV channel stated that he wants to call for the Russian state to answer the alleged interference in the US elections. He spoke about a conversation with the Russian leader Vladimir Putin and added that he would “pay”, if it is guilty. In the same conversation, Biden made a sharp statement to the Russian president.
After the statements of the American leader of the Russian ambassador in the United States, Anatoly Antonov was invited to Moscow to revise Russian-American relations. In the Kremlin, they stated the unwillingness of Joe Bayden to establish relations with Moscow.