The United States hopes to promote its liquified natural gas on the European market by imposing new restrictive measure against Russia, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has said.

Medvedev said that the new US sanctions would not hinder the Russian economy, which had already adapted to the new restrictions. Moreover, he added that the Russian government had a “wide range of decisions to make”.

Moreover, Russia’s Prime Minister is sure that the main aim of the anti-Russian US sanctions is to increse American LNG deliveries to Europe.

In general, Dmitry Medveded believes that Russia-US relations are at their lowest point in several decades.

“Despite the fact that our countries have a wide range of contacts, our bilateral relations are deteriorating from day to day”, he said during the press conference, adding that “our relationships may not have been worse in the Cold War times — 1970s and 1980s.”