ST. PETERSBURG, June 17. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomes Donald Trump’s declared readiness to mend relations with Russia.

"What I’ve certainly paid attention to and welcomed is Mr. Trump’s statement he is prepared for the full format restoration of Russian-US relations. Is there anything bad about that? We welcome this," Putin said at the full-scale meeting of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in reply to questions from the moderator.

"When they are through with the election process, we will do business with any US president," Putin said adding he hoped the new person in the White House would wish to develop Russian-US relations.

Putin recalled that Russia never intervened in the internal political processes in other countries.