Republican Party nominee Donald Trump said earlier that he would "get along very well" with Russian President Vladimir Putin

MOSCOW, September 8. /TASS/. Relations between Russia and the US will hardly see a quick revival even if Republican Party nominee Donald Trump wins, the director of the Institute for the US and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences told a news conference on Thursday. "It is naive to think that Trump’s presidency holds promises for a big friendship with the United States," Valery Garbuzov said. "A dialog can start at the best or some meetings, even at the summit level, that will hardly end in something, in some arrangements or agreements," he said. According to the expert, "a lot of things must be discussed, positions must be coordinated before we could say that Russia and the US would see a period of declining tensions in their relations". Trump said earlier that he would "get along very well" with Putin. Later, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in comments on these words that he hoped the US would show its will towards establishing good relations with Russia after the presidential elections.

In other remark, he pointed out that Moscow did not intervene in the internal affairs of other states. "Let me remind you President Vladimir Putin’s fundamental stance on this score. Russia has one favorable feature that distinguishes it from a number of countries: we never intervene in the internal affairs of other states," Peskov said. "Naturally, we believe that the best candidate for the post of the President of the United States will be the one a majority of the American people will vote for. Whatever peculiar features the US electoral system might have." Should Clinton win presidential election, US policy to undergo no change Accordign to the analyst, Hillary Clinton is most likely to emerge the winner in the US presidential election race and in that case the country’s foreign policy will see no change. "As for Donald Trump’s chances to win, they do exist but look much slimmer than Clinton’s," the analyst said.