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Kremlin: Russia-US Communication Channels Nearly All ’Frozen’

Kremlin: Russia-US Communication Channels Nearly All ’Frozen’
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The Kremlin said nearly all communication channels between the US and Russia are frozen, Russian state media reported.

Kremlin: Russia-US Communication Channels Nearly All ’Frozen’

Russia said it did not expect Donald Trump's incoming US administration to reject NATO enlargement, which Russia opposes, overnight, and that almost all communications channels between it and the United States were frozen, the RIA news agency reported.

"Almost every level of dialogue with the United States is frozen. We don't communicate with one another, or we do so minimally," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

State Department spokesman John Kirby quickly rejected Peskov's statement.

"It's difficult to know exactly what is meant by this comment, but diplomatic engagement with Russia continues across a wide range of issues," Kirby said in statement emailed to Reuters.

"That we have significant differences with Moscow on some of these issues is well known, but there hasn't been a break in dialogue."

It comes after a series of strong public statements by US politicians including President Barack Obama, after the CIA and FBI both said they believed Russia was behind the hacking of emails relating to Hillary Clinton during the presidential election.

On Tuesday Republican senator John McCain said Russia's involvement in hacking US systems during presidential election campaigns threatens to "destroy democracy" in its current form.

The senator for Arizona warned there may soon be an "unraveling of the world order" and criticized the "absolute failure of the American leadership" to improve relations with Moscow.

RIA, citing an interview it said Peskov gave to the Mir TV station, quoted him as saying he did not know whether President Vladimir Putin would seek re-election in 2018.

"Everyone's heads are aching because of work and with projects and nobody is thinking or talking about elections," Peskov said.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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