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Donald Trump took
power as the 45th president of the United States on Friday after
winning the presidential contest against Hillary Clinton.
Russia-U.S. relations were at their lowest since the Cold War
under Barack Obama administration, with tensions around conflict
in Ukraine and Syria crisis.
"This will not be in coming weeks, let's hope for the best -
that the meeting will happen in the coming months," Peskov told
BBC, according to TASS.
Some of Trump's opponents believe the Kremlin helped him win the
White House by staging a hacking campaign to hoover up
embarrassing information about Clinton, his rival.
The Kremlin denies that, saying that U.S. Democratic party used
hacking allegations as an excuse for losing to Trump.
Putin and other high-ranked Russian officials have publicly
praised Trump, expecting him to lift U.S. sanctions on Moscow,
first put in place in 2014 after Russia annexed Crimea from
Ukraine.
Peskov said that it would be "a big mistake" to think that
Russia-U.S. relations will be "free of contradictions and
disputes," during a Trump presidency.
"We indeed are the two biggest countries in the world. And we
can't live without frictions, conflict of interests," Peskov was
quoted by Interfax was saying on Saturday.
(Reporting by Katya Golubkova; Editing by Toby Chopra)
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