While tensions have increased between the United States and Russia, the current relationship between the two nations is not like that of the Cold War, Russian ambassador to the United States Sergey I. Kislyak said during a Feb. 4 campus talk.
Alluding to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s assertion last fall that current conflicts between Russia and the United States make the Cold War look “easy,” Kislyak told his audience in Horchow Hall that the Cold War was a result of major “ideological” differences between the countries. Today, he said, Russia is a “young democracy” that has aligned with the United States to tackle such important issues as the removal of chemical weapons from Syria — yet diverges in its “narrative” on others.
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