US State Department building in Washington DC. File photoWASHINGTON, Jul 25Washington is once again talking about the «isolation» of Moscow in the context of foreign visits by the Russian authorities: this time, the official representative of the State Department, Ned Price, after the start of the African tour of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, said that the Russian Federation was becoming a pariah. On July 24, Lavrov began the African tour with negotiations in Egypt. The next day he arrived in the Republic of the Congo, and before July 28 he will visit Ethiopia and Uganda. At the end of June, John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the US National Security Council, said that Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Iran «demonstrates the degree of isolation between Mr. Putin and Russia.» Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov called this «a fundamentally wrong assessment.» Today, Price was asked at a briefing to evaluate Putin's trip to Iran, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to Turkey and Lavrov's African tour in the context of US statements about Russia's isolation. «It becomes clear that Russia is aware that its actions lead to the fact that it is becoming an outcast,» he said. isolating Putin as absurd «It's clear that Foreign Minister Lavrov is looking for opportunities to engage with countries to try to quell dissatisfaction with Russia,» he added. According to him, the United States cares little about who Russia talks to and what it hears from countries. Price referred to «messages» from the G20 forum and the UN platform, which allegedly testified to «broad agreement» in assessing Russia's actions. The Russian authorities have repeatedly said that they do not see a tragedy in the deterioration of relations with Western countries. Moscow noted that the countries that have imposed sanctions against Russia are far from the whole world, and there are many opportunities to interact with those who treat cooperation pragmatically and outside the prism of Western statements about the desire to win the economic war.
Zakharova called Blinken's words about Russia's «isolation» in the G20 fiction
