Russia–United States relations

Russia–United States relations

Russia
United States
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Russian Embassy, Washington, D.C. United States Embassy, Moscow

Russia–United States relations is the bilateral relationship between the United States and the Russian Federation, the successor state to the Soviet Union. Russia and the United States maintain diplomatic and trade relations. The relationship was generally warm under Russia′s President Boris Yeltsin (1991–1999) until the NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia[1] in the spring of 1999, and has since deteriorated significantly under Vladimir Putin. In 2014, relations greatly strained due to the crisis in Ukraine, Russia's annexation of Crimea, and, in 2015, by sharp differences regarding Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War. Mutual sanctions imposed in 2014 remain in place.

Country comparison

Common name Russia United States
Official name Russian Federation, or Russia[2] United States of America
Coat of Arms
Flag Russia United States
Area 17,075,400 km² (6,592,800 sq mi) 9,526,468 km² (3,794,101 sq mi)[3]
Population 146,267,999 324,894,501
Population density 8.3/km² (21.5/sq mi) 33.7/km² (87.4/sq mi)
Capital Moscow Washington, D.C.
Largest Metropolitan Areas Moscow (16,800,000) New York City (23,632,722)
Government Federal semi-presidential
constitutional republic
multi-party system 		Federal presidential constitutional republic
two-party system
First leader Boris Yeltsin George Washington
Current leader Vladimir Putin Barack Obama

Donald Trump (president-elect)

Established 862 (Kievan Rus')

16 January 1547 (Tsardom)
22 October 1721 (Empire)
30 December 1922 (Soviet Union)
25 December 1991 (current form of government)

 4 July 1776 (independence declared)

3 September 1783 (independence recognized)
21 June 1788 (current constitution)

Official languages Russian None
GDP (nominal) $1.857 trillion $17.419 trillion
External debt (nominal) $597.254 billion (2014 Q4) $17.114 trillion (2014 Q4)
GDP (PPP) $3.565 trillion $17.419 trillion
GDP (nominal) per capita $12,926 $54,597
GDP (PPP) per capita $24,805 $55,608
Human Development Index 0.788 (high) 0.915 (very high)
Foreign exchange reserves 465,228 (millions of USD) 142,898 (millions of USD)
Military expenditures $87.8 billion $612 billion
Army size Russian Army(2016)[4]
  • 15,398 Main Battle Tanks
  • 31,298 Armored Fighting Vehicles
  • 5,972 Self Propelled Guns
  • 4,625 Towed Artillery
  • 3,793 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems
  • 334 Tactical Ballistic Missile Systems
 US Army(2016)[5]
  • 8,848 Main Battle Tanks
  • 41,062 Armored Fighting Vehicles
  • 1,934 Self Propelled Guns
  • 1,299 Towed Artillery
  • 1,331 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems
  • 340 Tactical Ballistic Missile Systems
Navy size Russian Navy(2016)[4]

Total Naval Strength: 352 ships

  • 1 aircraft carriers
  • 1 battlecruisers
  • 3 cruisers
  • 15 destroyers
  • 4 frigates
  • 81 corvettes
  • 60 submarines
 US Navy(2016)[5]

Total Naval Strength: 415 ships

  • 19 aircraft carriers
  • 22 cruisers
  • 62 destroyers
  • 6 frigates
  • 0 corvettes
  • 75 submarines
Air Force size Russian Air Force(2016)[4]
  • 173 Bombers
  • 873 Fighters/Interceptors
  • 476 Attack aircraft
  • 1,124 Transports
  • 1,237 Helicopters
  • 478 Attack Helicopters
 US Air Force(2016)[5]
  • 159 Bombers
  • 2,308 Fighters/Interceptors
  • 319 Attack aircraft
  • 5,739 Transports
  • 6,084 Helicopters
  • 957 Attack Helicopters
Nuclear warheads

active/total

 2500 / 8000 (2015) 1900 / 4760 (2015)

Leaders of Russia and the United States from 1992

George H. W. Bush Bill Clinton George W. Bush Barack Obama Boris Yeltsin Vladimir Putin Dmitry Medvedev Vladimir Putin United States Russia

History

Background: the United States and the Soviet Union

In the late 1980s, Eastern European nations took advantage of the relaxation of Soviet control under Mikhail Gorbachev and began to break away from communist rule.

On 3 December 1989, Gorbachev and George H. W. Bush declared the Cold War over at the Malta Summit.[6] In December 1991, the Soviet Union dissolved and the Commonwealth of Independent States was formed.

With the ending of Communism, relations between Russia and the United States greatly improved in the final years of the USSR.

Putin and George W. Bush (January 2001-January 2009)

During the presidencies of Vladimir Putin, who assumed the top office on the last day of 1999, and U.S. president George W. Bush, the U.S. and Russia began to have serious disagreements. Under Putin, Russia became more assertive in international affairs; under Bush, the U.S. took an increasingly unilateral course in its foreign policy in the wake of the September 11 attacks. Nevertheless, Putin and Bush were said to have established good personal relations.[7][8]

In 2002, the U.S. withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in order to move forward with plans for a missile defense system. Putin called the decision a mistake. Russia strongly opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq, though without exercising its veto in the United Nations Security Council. Russia has regarded the expansion of NATO into the old Eastern Bloc, and U.S. efforts to gain access to Central Asian oil and natural gas as a potentially hostile encroachment on Russia's sphere of influence.

Controversy over U.S. plan to station missiles in Poland

In March 2007, the U.S. announced plans to build an anti-ballistic missile defense installation in Poland along with a radar station in the Czech Republic. Both nations were former Warsaw Pact members. U.S. officials said that the system was intended to protect the United States and Europe from possible nuclear missile attacks by Iran or North Korea. Russia, however, viewed the new system as a potential threat and, in response, tested a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile, the RS-24, which it claimed could defeat any defense system. Vladimir Putin warned the U.S. that these new tensions could turn Europe into a "powder keg". On 3 June 2007, Putin warned that if the U.S. built the missile defense system, Russia would consider targeting missiles at Poland and the Czech Republic.[9]

On 16 October 2007, Vladimir Putin visited Iran to discuss Russia's aid to Iran's nuclear power program and "insisted that the use of force was unacceptable."[10] On October 17, Bush stated "if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon," understood as a message to Putin.[11] A week later Putin compared U.S. plans to put up a missile defense system near Russia's border as analogous to when the Soviet Union deployed missiles in Cuba, prompting the Cuban Missile Crisis.[12]

On 14 February 2008, Vladimir Putin said Russia might have to retarget some of its missiles towards the missile defense system: "If it appears, we will be forced to respond appropriately – we will have to retarget part of our systems against those missiles." He also said that missiles might be redirected towards Ukraine if they went ahead with plans to build NATO bases within their territory, saying that "We will be compelled to aim our missiles at facilities that we consider a threat to our national security, and I am putting this plainly now so that the blame for this is not shifted later,"[13]

On 8 July 2008, Russia announced that if a U.S. anti-missile shield was deployed near the Russian border, it would have to react militarily. The statement from the Russian foreign ministry said, "If a U.S. strategic anti-missile shield starts to be deployed near our borders, we will be forced to react not in a diplomatic fashion but with military-technical means." Later, Russia's ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin said that "military-technical means" did not mean military action, but more likely a change in Russia's strategic posture, perhaps by redeploying its own missiles.[14]

On 14 August 2008, the U.S. and Poland agreed to have 10 two-stage missile interceptors – made by Orbital Sciences Corporation – placed in Poland, as part of a missile shield to defend Europe and the U.S. from a possible missile attack by Iran. In return, the U.S. agreed to move a battery of MIM-104 Patriot missiles to Poland. The missile battery was to be staffed – at least temporarily – by U.S. Military personnel. The U.S. also pledged to defend Poland, a NATO member, quicker than NATO would in the event of an attack. Additionally, the Czech Republic recently agreed to allow the placement of a radar-tracking station in their country, despite public opinion polls showing that the majority of Czechs were against the plans and only 18% supported it.[15] The radar-tracking station in the Czech Republic would also be part of the missile defense shield. After the agreement was announced, Russian officials said defences on Russia's borders would be increased and that they foresaw harm in bilateral relations with the United States[16]

In November 2008, a day after Obama was elected president of the U.S., Russian president Dmitry Medvedev in his first annual address to the Federal Assembly of Russia announced plans to deploy Iskander short-range missilies to Kaliningrad, near the border with Poland, if the U.S. went ahead with its European Ballistic Missile Defense System.[17][18]

Russian-Georgian clash

Main article: Russia–Georgia war

In August 2008, American-Russian relations became further strained, when Russia and Georgia fought a five-day war over the Russian-backed self-proclaimed republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Obama′s tenure (2009–2016)

"Reset" under Obama and Medvedev (2009–2010)

U.S. president Barack Obama with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev in 2009.

Despite U.S.-Russia relations becoming strained during the Bush administration, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev and U.S. president Barack Obama struck a warm tone at the 2009 G20 summit in London and released a joint statement that promised a "fresh start" in U.S.-Russia relations. The statement also called on Iran to abandon its nuclear program and to permit foreign inspectors into the country.[19]

In March 2009, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov symbolically pressed a "reset" button. The gag fell short as the Russian translation on the button was misspelt by the State Department and actually meant "overload" instead of "reset". After making a few jokes, they decided to press the button anyway.[20]

In early July 2009, Obama visited Moscow where he had meetings with president Medvedev and prime minister Putin. Speaking at the New Economic School Obama told a large gathering, "America wants a strong, peaceful and prosperous Russia. This belief is rooted in our respect for the Russian people, and a shared history between our nations that goes beyond competition."[21] Days after president Obama′s visit to Moscow, U.S. vice president Biden, noting that the U.S. was "vastly underestimat[ing] the hand that [it] h[e]ld", told an American newspaper that Russia, with its population base shrinking and the economy "withering", would have to make accommodations to the West on a wide range of national-security issues.[22] Biden′s words, published shortly after his visit to Ukraine and Georgia, were interpreted by George Friedman of Stratfor as "reaffirm[ing] the U.S. commitment to the principle that Russia does not have the right to a sphere of influence in these countries or anywhere in the former Soviet Union";[23] Friedman pointed up a fundamental error in the analysis that underlay such thinking and predicted, "We suspect the Russians will squeeze back hard before they move off the stage of history".[23]

In March 2010, the U.S. and Russia reached an agreement to reduce their stockpiles of nuclear weapons. The new nuclear arms reduction treaty (called New START) was signed by President Obama and President Medvedev on April 8, 2010. The agreement cut the number of long-range nuclear weapons held by each side to about 1,500, down from the current 1,700 to 2,200 set by the Moscow Treaty of 2002. The New START replaced the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which expired in December 2009.[24]

By 2012, it was clear that a genuine reset never happened and relations remained sour. Factors in the West included traditional mistrust and fear, an increasing drift away from democracy by Russia, and a demand in Eastern Europe for closer political, economic and military integration with the West. From Russia factors included a move away from democracy by Putin, expectations of regaining superpower status and the tactic of manipulating trade policies and encouraging divisions within NATO.[25][26]

Start of Putin's third term

See also: Cold War II

Shortly after the election of Putin back to presidency in March 2012, the White House spokesman Jay Carney said U.S.-Russian cooperation was based on mutual interests.[27]

In mid-September 2013, the U.S. and Russia made a deal whereby Syria′s chemical weapons would be placed under international control and eventually destroyed; president Obama welcomed the agreement[28] that was shortly after enshrined in the UNSC Resolution 2118. The Obama administration was criticised for having used the chemical weapons deal as an ineffectual substitute for military action that Obama had promised in the event of use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government.[29] In George Robertson′s view, as well as many others′, the failure of Obama to follow through on his 2013 "red line" and take promised military action badly hurt his credibility and that of the U.S. with Putin and other world leaders.[30]

Obama acknowledged Russia′s role in securing the deal to limit Iran's nuclear program that was reached in July 2015, and personally thanked Putin for Russia's role in the relevant negotiations.[31]

On a personal level, the relationship between Obama and Putin went on to be characterised by an observer in 2015 the following way: "There can rarely have been two world leaders so obviously physically uncomfortable in one another's presence."[32]

Increased tension: 2012–2015

In May 2012, Russian general Nikolay Yegorovich Makarov said that there was a possibility of a preemptive strike on missile defense sites in Eastern Europe, to apply pressure to the United States regarding Russia's demands.[33] In July 2012, two Tu-95 Bears were intercepted by NORAD fighters in the air defense zone off the U.S. coast of Alaska, where they may have been practicing the targeting of Fort Greely and Vandenberg Air Force Base.[34] Later in August 2012, it was revealed that an Akula-class submarine had conducted a patrol within the Gulf of Mexico without being detected, raising alarms of the U.S. Navy's anti-submarine warfare capabilities.[35][36]

On 14 December 2012, U.S. president Barack Obama signed the Magnitsky Act, which "[imposed] U.S. travel and financial restrictions on human rights abusers in Russia". On 28 December 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill, widely seen as retaliatory, that banned any United States citizen from adopting children from Russia.[37]

On February 12, 2013, just hours before the 2013 State of the Union Address, two Russian Tu-95 Bear strategic bombers equipped with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles circled the United States territory of Guam.[38][39] Air Force F-15 jets based on Andersen Air Force Base were scrambled to intercept the aircraft.[38][39] The Russian aircraft reportedly "were intercepted and left the area in a northbound direction."[38][39]

At the end of 2013, Russia announced that a rearmament of the Novosibirsk and Tagil Rocket divisions with RS-24 Yars intercontinental ballistic missiles was going ahead[40]

In July 2014, the U.S. government formally accused Russia of having violated the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty by testing a prohibited medium-range ground-launched cruise missile (presumably R-500,[41] a modification of Iskander)[42] and threatened to retaliate accordingly.[42][43] Concern in the U.S. was also caused by the test-firing in 2014 of the Russian RS-26 Rubezh Intercontinental Ballistic Missile capable of evading the existing anti-ballistic missile defenses.[44][45]

In early June 2015, the U.S. State Department reported that Russia had failed to correct the violation of the I.N.F. Treaty; the U.S. government was said to have made no discernible headway in making Russia so much as acknowledge the compliance problem.[46]

Edward Snowden affair

Edward Snowden, a contractor for the United States government, copied and released hundreds of thousands of pages of secret American government documents. He fled to Hong Kong, and then to Russia where in July 2013 he was granted political asylum. He was wanted on a criminal warrant by U.S. prosecutors for theft of government property and espionage.[47]

The granting of asylum further aggravated relations between the two countries and led to the cancellation of a meeting between Obama and Putin that was scheduled for early September 2013 in Moscow.[48] Snowden remains in Russia as of 2016.

Ukraine crisis: 2014-present

Following the collapse of the government of Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine, in March 2014 Russia annexed Crimea on the basis of a controversial referendum. The U.S. submitted a UN Security Council resolution declaring the referendum illegal; it was vetoed by Russia on 15 March with China abstaining and the other 13 Security Council members voting for the resolution.[49] On March 24, the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the U.S. suspended Russia from the G-8 economic conference (making it the G-7). A non-binding resolution at the UN General Assembly declared the Crimean referendum invalid with showed votes in favor, 11 against, and 58 abstentions.[50]

At the end of March 2014, president Obama admitted that Russia's annexation of Crimea would be hard to reverse, but he dismissed Russia as a "regional power" that did not pose a major security threat to the U.S.[51] In January 2016, when asked for his opinion of Obama′s statement, Putin said, "I think that speculations about other countries, an attempt to speak disrespectfully about other countries is an attempt to prove one's exceptionalism by contrast. In my view, that is a misguided position."[52][53] In November 2016, the president of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker said this of the statement of Obama: ″We have a lot to learn about the depths of Russia, we are very ignorant about it at the moment. I would like to have discussions on a level footing with Russia. Russia is not, as President Obama said, ′a regional power′. This was a big error in assessment.″[54]

Political cartoon by Ranan Lurie

As unrest spread into eastern Ukraine in the spring of 2014, relations between the U.S. and Russia further worsened. Russian support for separatists fighting Ukrainian forces attracted U.S. sanctions. After one bout of sanctions announced by President Obama on July 16, 2014, Putin said sanctions were driving Russia into a corner that could bring relations between the two countries to a "dead-end."[55]

From March 2014 to 2016, six rounds of sanctions were imposed by the US, the EU, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Japan. The first three rounds targeted individuals close to Putin by freezing their assets. Anyone on the blacklist of the core Russian leadership had their assets frozen, and were not issued visas. Putin responded by cutting off most food shipments from Europe intended for Russian consumers. Later sanctions cut off Russian corporations from Western financing.[56]

On July 17, 2014, Russia was blamed for giving missiles to its supporters in Ukraine who then shot down a scheduled passenger airliner. Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was brought down by a surface-to-air missile in eastern Ukraine, near the Russian border. Independent sources concluded that the missile had been fired from an area controlled by Russian-backed separatists, who were supplied by Russia with sophisticated weapons, training, heavy arms, and anti-aircraft equipment.[57]

The end of 2014 saw the passage by the US of the Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014,[58][59] aimed at depriving certain Russian state firms from Western financing and technology while also providing $350 million in arms and military equipment to Ukraine, and the imposition by the US President's executive order of yet another round of sanctions.[60]

Due to the situation concerning Ukraine, relations between the U.S. and Russia in 2014 were said to have been at their worst since the end of the Cold war.[61]

The annexation of Crimea was denounced by most of the international community including the UN, NATO, EU and the U.S. as a violation of international law. Crimea's status as a part of Russia remains recognized by only a handful of countries long associated with Moscow.[62][63]

Scholars explored the reasons the Kremlin provided for its actions in Ukraine comparing them to its geopolitical goals. Thomas Ambrosio says the Kremlin justified its role by claiming that Crimea's secession from Ukraine was a legal act of self-determination; that Russia possesses justifiable historical, cultural, and legal claims to Crimea; and that Western attacks on Russia's actions are dishonest and merely reflected a lingering anti-Russian, Cold War mentality.[64] John Biersack and Shannon O’Lear argue that when a pro-European Union government came to power in Ukraine, Moscow worked to create a secessionist referendum in Crimea. It justified its moves by appeals to Russia's geopolitical and historical imaginations of Crimea. Its real goals, they argue, were to control naval bases of the Russian Black Sea fleet and to seize much of Ukraine's Black Sea energy potential and existing oil facilities.[65]

Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War: 30 September 2015–present

Barack Obama meets with Vladimir Putin to discuss Syria, 29 September 2015

Shortly after the start of the Syrian Civil War in the spring of 2011, the U.S. imposed sanctions on Syria′s government and urged president Bashar al-Assad to resign; meanwhile, Russia, a long-standing ally of Syria, continued and increased its support for the Syrian government against rebels backed up by the U.S. and its regional allies.

On 30 September 2015, Russia began the air campaign in Syria on the side of the Syrian government headed by president Bashar al-Assad of Syria. According to Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov′s statement made in mid-October 2015, Russia had invited the U.S. to join the Baghdad-based information center set up by Iran, Iraq, Syria and Russia to coordinate their military efforts, but received what he called an "unconstructive" response; Putin′s proposal that the U.S. receive a high-level Russian delegation and that a U.S. delegation arrive in Moscow to discuss co-operation in Syria was likewise declined by the U.S.[66][67][68]

In early October 2015, U.S. president Obama called the way Russia was conducting its military campaign in Syria a "recipe for disaster";[69] top U.S. military officials ruled out military cooperation with Russia in Syria.[70][71] Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and other senior U.S. officials said Russia's campaign was primarily aimed at propping up Assad, whom U.S. president Barack Obama had repeatedly called upon to leave power.[72]

Three weeks into the Russian campaign in Syria, on 20 October 2015, Russian president Vladimir Putin met Bashar Assad in Moscow to discuss their joint military campaign and a future political settlement in Syria, according to the Kremlin report of the event.[73][74] The meeting provoked a sharp condemnation from the White House.[75]

While one of the original aims of the Russian leadership may have been normalisation of the relationship with the U.S. and the West at large, the resultant situation in Syria was said in October 2015 to be a proxy war between Russia and the U.S.[76][77][78][79][80] The two rounds of the Syria peace talks held in Vienna in October and November 2015, with Iran participating for the first time, highlighted yet again the deep disagreement over the Syrian settlement between the U.S. and Russia, primarily on the issue of Bashar Assad′s political future.[81] The talks in Vienna were followed by a bilateral meeting of Obama and Putin on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit in Turkey, during which a certain consensus between the two leaders on Syria was reported to have been reached.[82][83]

Bilateral negotiations over Syria were unilaterally suspended by the U.S on 3 October 2016, which was presented as the U.S. government′s reaction to a re-newed offensive on Alleppo by Syrian and Russian troops.[84] On the same day Putin signed a decree[85] that suspended the 2000 Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement with the U.S. (the relevant law was signed on 31 October 2016[86]), citing the failure by the U.S. to comply with the provisions thereof as well as the U.S.′ unfriendly actions that posed a "threat to strategic stability."[87][88] In mid-October 2016, Russia's U.N. ambassador Vitaly Churkin, referring to the international situation during the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, said that tensions with the U.S. are ″probably the worst since 1973″.[89] After two rounds of fruitless talks on Syria in Lausanne and London, the foreign ministers of the U.S. and the UK said that additional sanctions against both Russia and Syria were imminent unless Russia and the "Assad regime" stopped their air campaign in Aleppo.[90][91]

U.S. election of 2016

The U.S. presidential election campaign of 2016 saw the U.S. security officials accusing the Russian government of being behind massive cyber-hackings and leaks that aimed at influencing the election and discrediting the U.S. political system.[92] The allegations were dismissed by Putin who said the idea that Russia was favouring Donald Trump was a myth created by the Clinton campaign.[92]

Trump had been widely seen by Western media as a pro-Russia candidate who stated that improving their relations would benefit both Russia and the United States,[93] with the FBI investigating alleged connections between Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort and pro-Russian interests.[94]

Post-U.S. election of 2016

In mid-November 2016, shortly after the election of Donald Trump as the U.S. president, the Kremlin accused president Barack Obama's administration of trying to damage the U.S.′ relationship with Russia to a degree that would render normalization thereof impossible for the incoming administration of Donald Trump.[95]

Speaking on a visit to Germany on 17 November, president Obama said, in an obvious contradiction to his earlier statement made in 2014, that his ″view on Russia ha[d] not changed since [his] first day in office. Russia is an important superpower, a military superpower, it has influence in the region as well as worldwide.″[96]

In his address to the Russian parliament delivered on 1 December 2016, Russian president Putin said this of U.S.—Russia relations: "We are prepared to cooperate with the new American administration. It's important to normalize and begin to develop bilateral relations on an equal and mutually beneficial basis. Mutual efforts by Russia and the United States in solving global and regional problems are in the interest of the entire world."[97]

Russian intelligence operations

According to the 2007 reports referring to American sources, Russian espionage under Vladimir Putin had reached Cold War levels.[98]

Mutual perceptions by the countries’ populations

President Obama greets attendees at the New Economic School graduation in Gostinny Dvor, Moscow, July 7, 2009

A poll by the University of Maryland, College Park, released early July 2009 found that only 2 percent of Russians had "a lot of confidence" that American president Barack Obama would do the right thing in world affairs.[99] Russian media has criticized the United States over the past years for pursuing an anti-missile system in Europe, for favoring NATO expansion and for supporting Georgia in its armed conflict with Russia in 2008.[100]

Prior to 2014, the Russian press expressed varying opinions of Russian-America relations.[101] Russian media treatment of America ranged from doctrinaire[102] and nationalistic[103] to very positive toward the United States and the West.[104][105][106][107] In 2013, 51 percent of Russians had a favorable view of the U.S., down from 57 percent in 2010.[108]

The opinion polls taken by the independent Levada Center in January 2015,[109] showed 81 percent of Russians tended to hold negative views of the US, a number that had nearly doubled over the previous 12 months and that was by far the highest negative rating since the center started tracking those views in 1988, as well as surpassing any time since the Stalin era, according to observers.[110] This contrasts with only 7 percent of Russians in April 1990 who said they had bad or somewhat bad attitudes towards the US.[111] Likewise, the figures published by Gallup in February 2015 showed a significant rise in anti-Russian sentiment in the US: the proportion of Americans who considered Russia as a "critical military threat" had over the 12 months increased from 32 to 49 percent, and, for the first time in many years, Russia topped the list of America's perceived external enemies, ahead of North Korea, China and Iran, with 18 percent of U.S. residents putting Russia at the top of the list of the "United States’ greatest enemy today".[112] Public opinion polls taken by the Pew Research Center showed that favorable U.S. public opinion of Russia was at 22 percent in 2015. The most negative view of Russia was at 19 percent in 2014, and the most positive view at 49 percent in 2010 and 2011.[113] The most negative view of the United States was at 15 percent in 2015, while the most positive view was at 61 percent in 2002.[114]

Propaganda

The mutual perceptions are influenced by information/propaganda networks:

Timeline of relations between the U.S. and Russia

The timeline covers key events, 1991 to present.[117][118]

Yeltsin era, 1991–2000

Vladimir Putin and wife Lyudmila at service for victims of the September 11 attacks, November 16, 2001.

Putin era, 2000 to present

Donald Rumsfeld with Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Ivanov on March 13, 2002
Barack Obama meets with Prime Minister Putin outside Moscow, July 7, 2009
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov shake hands after signing the New START Treaty, Munich, Germany, on February 5, 2011
Obama at a bilateral meeting with Putin during the G8 summit in Ireland, June 17, 2013.
Putin and Obama shake hands at G8 summit, June 17, 2013

Space exploration

The Planetary Society is known to have collaborated with Russia, especially Cosmos 1 and LIFE.

According to The Washington Post, NASA recently renewed a contract that requires Russia to aid in transporting U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station. While adding additional support at the Russian launch site, this contract is costing the United States $457.9 million. Along with the renewal NASA has also announced that they will be cutting some contacts with Russia after the country annexed Crimea which includes meetings, and teleconferences. The funding the United States continues to borrow from Russia is due to the lack of funding NASA is receiving from congress.[143]

Economic ties

The U.S. Congress voted to repeal the Jackson–Vanik amendment on November 16, 2012.[144]

"Last year [2015] was not particularly favorable for trade between Russia and the U.S. Our overall 2015 turnover was $21 billion, a decline of 27.9 percent," said a senior Russian official in April 2016.[145]

Military ties

Following the demise of the Soviet Union, the United States and Russia signed a bilateral treaty called the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START II). Signed by George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin on January 3, 1993, it banned the use of multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles on intercontinental ballistic missiles.

The United States and Russia have conducted joint military maneuvers, training and counter-terrorist exercises in Germany. This was done in hopes to strengthen relations with the United States and Russia.[146] The Russian president has also proposed that the United States and Russia put a joint missile defense system in Azerbaijan, a proposal being considered by the United States.[147] In 2008, in response to tensions over Georgia, the United States had cancelled its most recent joint NATO-Russia military exercises.

As of August 2012, the U.S. and Russia continue to hold joint military exercises like Northern Eagle (held since 2004, together with Norway)[148][149][150] and Vigilant/Watchful Eagle (with Canada)[151] among others, with the aim of improving joint cooperation against terrorism and piracy.

NATO–Russia relations

Russian-American relations are heavily influenced by the United States' deep involvement with NATO and its policies. NATO and Russia agreed to cooperate on security issues at the 2002 Rome summit and have been gradually improving relations ever since. However, due to the expansion of the alliance, the Russian intervention in Georgia, Russias war campaign against Ukraine and other controversies, relations deteriorated significantly.[152]

Joint operations and mutual support

Presidents Bush and Putin, November 16, 2001.

Russia has expressed support for the United States' War on Terror by deploying a military hospital and a small number of military personnel (for the military hospital) to Afghanistan in order to aid the U.S. Military, NATO military forces and Afghan civilians. Russia has also agreed to provide logistic support for the United States forces in Afghanistan to aid in anti-terrorist operations. Russia has also allowed U.S. and NATO forces to pass through its territory to go to Afghanistan. Russian Spetsnaz have also assisted U.S., NATO and Afghan forces in operations in Afghanistan, by helping with intel and studying the lay of the land. The two nations support each other in combating piracy in the waters of Somalia.

See also

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