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‘Russia and US are interdependent’

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Published 07 March, 2009, 18:46

Russia is ‘part of the game’ now and interdependent with the US economically. So, “we have to find political ways to improve our relations”, says Lev Voronkov from Moscow State University of International Relations.

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