A group of US senators, on a visit to Moscow today, said they have invited Russian lawmakers to Washington later this year in a bid to help ease tensions between the two countries.
On the second trip by US politicians to the Russian capital in just over a month, the delegation is this time being led by high-profile Republican lawmaker senator Rand Paul.
Paul said that members of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the upper house of the Russian parliament, the Federation Council, had been invited "to come to the United States to meet with us in Washington."