TASS. June 11. The United States and Great Britain have been making attempts for decades to contain Russia, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a live broadcast on the Rossiya-1 television channel on Sunday.
The Russian presidential spokesman thus commented on a statement that Great Britain and the United States intended to counter Russia on the global civil nuclear power market.
"The course towards containing our country is an absolutely constant factor of the foreign policy of the United States and Great Britain. This has been going on for more than a decade and this is why we have been living in the conditions of these attempts for quite a long time," the Kremlin press secretary said in an interview with the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin program, responding to questions from journalist Pavel Zarubin.
The Kremlin press secretary earlier said that the Russian civil nuclear power industry gained competitive advantages on the world market amid tough competition and Russia proved its leading positions. The Russian civil nuclear power industry was ready to further prove its advantages for interested parties, he stressed. However, unfair competition caused Russia’s concern, he added.
The Atlantic Declaration released by the office of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on June 8 says that Great Britain and the United States announce a new economic partnership, in which they will seek edging Russia out of the global civil nuclear energy market as one of its goals.