MOSCOW, February 4. /TASS/. The European Union and Russia have already lived through the worst phase in their relations, which will are now bound to improve, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov said on Monday.

"We have already hit the bottom in our relations with the European Union. Of course, we are not far above that so far but I think that the moods are changing," he said in an interview with the Rossiya-24 television channel.

Touching on the topic of the European Union’s anti-Russian sanctions, the Russian diplomat noted that "they (the European Union - TASS) seem to have run out of appetite for further sanctions."