From Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty…
Vladimir Putin is not happy.
The Kremlin has lashed out over what Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman says is the recent "unpredictability" of the United States, saying it was causing "deep global concern."
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made the comments on November 14, two weeks ahead of an expected meeting between Putin and President Donald Trump during a summit of the Group of 20 (G20) in Argentina.
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"The fact that America has become unpredictable lately is no secret to anyone," Peskov told Dozhd TV during a visit by Putin to Singapore for the annual summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
"Such unpredictability from the largest country, the most powerful economy in the world, is the subject of deep global concern," he said.
(Trump has elected not to attend the ASEAN meeting. He has sent Pence in his place, despite the fact that former U.S. Presidents have previously made it a regular practice to attend those meetings.
Peskov further said that no separate meeting between Pence and Putin was planned, and that there was no need for such a meeting because Trump and Putin are to meet while both attend the G20 summit in Buenos Aires at the end of the month.)
Putin is unhappy that U.S.-Russia relations are not better, and that the U.S. is considering imposing additional sanctions in response to the near-fatal poisoning in the U.K. of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia. An English woman was killed by poison that had been stored in a bottle of perfume that the assassins sent to kill Skripal apparently left behind in the city of Salisbury.
Peskov did not directly criticize Trump. Previously, Russian officials have blamed the lack of better U.S.-Russia ties on Russophobes in the U.S. government.