Moscow — Russia expects nothing good in relations with a “deeply hostile” US under the incoming administration of Joe Biden and has no plans to make unilateral concessions to improve ties, deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov has said.

“We are heading from bad to worse,” Ryabkov said in an interview with the Interfax news service published on Wednesday. “The next US president has been left with a bad legacy and it will take a long time for him to sort this out.”..

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