Russian President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy adviser, Yuri Ushakov, said today that Putin's telephone phone conversation with US President-elect Donald Trump this week revealed a "shared desire to join efforts in the fight against terrorism" that creates a "good basis for future work on the Syrian problem."
Russian news agencies report that Ushakov says the timing for a Trump-Putin meeting hasn't been discussed yet.
He alleges the Obama administration is "doing everything it can to drive bilateral ties into such a deadlock" that a new administration would find it difficult to re-establish productive ties, "if it wishes to do so.