Russian FM: "Russia interested in bringing ties with US back to normal"
Earlier this year, US President Donald Trump signed into law a bill toughening US sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea. The bill ‘Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act’ legalized restrictive measures imposed on Russia by the Obama administration
On July 28, Moscow offered Washington to cut down the diplomatic and technical staff at the U.S. embassy and other legations in Russia by September 1 to the level of full parity with the size of the personnel at Russian diplomatic missions in the U.S., or 455 persons in all.
On August 31, the US authorities demanded that Moscow closed by September 2 its Consulate General in San Francisco, the trade mission in Washington and its office in New York.