MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. The United States does not give up plans for containing Russia, which has an adverse effect on bilateral relations, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russia's TV Channel One in an interview on Wednesday.

"Nobody — I mean our US counterparts — has given up plans for containing Russia. This cannot but have negative consequences," Kremlin official said.

Peskov said that there were not very many international issues among the questions addressed to the Direct Line program.

"International affairs are possibly of smaller interest to the Russians, as follows from the questions that we have seen," Peskov said. He stressed that Moscow-Washington relations were "system-forming from the standpoint of international stability and strategic stability," adding that "there are some questions on these issues," of course.

Asked if Putin's recent meeting with his US counterpart Joe Biden had influenced the issues that the Russians were concerned about, Peskov said that he did not think it was the main event.

"It was important, but far from the main one. Possibly, the country's development and its emergence from the crisis is more important than world affairs," he believes.

As he dwelt upon relations between Russia and the United States after the June 16 summit in Geneva, the Kremlin official said that "nothing changes so fast."

"There is a certain force of retardation," he stressed. "It takes time for the understandings that were achieved between the two presidents in Geneva to overcome the bureaucratic hurdles and begin to be acted on," Peskov said.

"We know that the president has repeatedly declared the readiness to move as far in the development of bilateral relations as our counterparts are ready to and the extent of their readiness depends on the political will," Peskov concluded.