Kremlin Sees More Friction With West as Best Answer to Tensions
- ‘We should stop talking to them for awhile,’ Lavrov says
- Russia rejects accusation it’s responsible for downward spiral
Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg
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Russia is planning for more conflict with the West as confrontation grows over the poisoning of an opposition leader, the crisis in Belarus and fresh charges of meddling in the American presidential vote.
Rejecting U.S. and European accusations that it’s to blame for the mess in relations after years of targeting opponents, pressuring neighbors and hacking foreign governments’ computers, the Kremlin says it’s giving up any pretense of wanting to calm things down.