Left Out of Trump’s Big Speech, Russia Wonders What It Means
- Kremlin says it’s waiting for Trump to act on cooperation vow
- Silence is best in ‘anti-Russian Congress,’ analyst says
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After months as the focus of heated controversy over its alleged interference in the U.S. presidential election campaign, Russia is pondering what it means to be left out of Donald Trump’s first address to Congress.
“There wasn’t a word about Russia,” Konstantin Kosachyov, chairman of the foreign affairs committee of the upper house of the Russian parliament, said Wednesday on Facebook. “What’s behind that isn’t clear yet.”