The expert considered the prospects for cooperation between the United States and Russia in the Arctic region to be "ambiguous." If the Democrats win the congressional elections, they will "severely suppress" any attempt to improve relations between Washington and Moscow. Mikhail Khachaturian, Associate Professor at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Candidate of Economic Sciences, shared this opinion on the radio station "Moscow Speaks". We have to be realistic and assume that the odds are more than dim. First of all, for one simple reason: the USA is a parliamentary-presidential republic. And the main decisions are made by Congress. There will be an election on November 3, and the Democrats are already demonstrating that they are ready to win, and therefore, all the initiatives of any attempts to weaken, to remove, to establish any kind of economic relations [with Russia - roughly. GM] will be severely suppressed. We have seen information that American oil companies that have not yet concluded contracts for the supply of Russian diesel have already been threatened.

The expert considered the prospects for cooperation between the United States and Russia in the Arctic region to be "ambiguous." If the Democrats win the congressional elections, they will "severely suppress" any attempt to improve relations between Washington and Moscow. Mikhail Khachaturian, Associate Professor at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Candidate of Economic Sciences, shared this opinion on the radio station "Moscow Speaks". We have to be realistic and assume that the odds are more than dim. First of all, for one simple reason: the USA is a parliamentary-presidential republic. And the main decisions are made by Congress. There will be an election on November 3, and the Democrats are already demonstrating that they are ready to win, and therefore, all the initiatives of any attempts to weaken, to remove, to establish any kind of economic relations [with Russia - roughly. GM] will be severely suppressed. We have seen information that American oil companies that have not yet concluded contracts for the supply of Russian diesel have already been threatened.