Russia–United States relations

Russia–United States relations



Russia	United States
Diplomatic Mission
Russian Embassy, Washington, D.C.	United States Embassy, Moscow
Envoy
Ambassador Sergey Kislyak	Ambassador John F. Tefft

Russia–United States relations is the bilateral relationship between the United States and the Russian Federation, the successor state to the Soviet Union. Russia and the United States maintain diplomatic and trade relations. The relationship was generally warm under Russia's President Boris Yeltsin (1991–1999) until the NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999, and has since deteriorated significantly under Vladimir Putin. In 2014, relations greatly strained due to the crisis in Ukraine, Russia's annexation of Crimea, and, in 2015, by sharp differences regarding Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War. Mutual sanctions imposed in 2014 remain in place.

Total naval strength: 352 ships

Total naval strength: 415 ships

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Leaders of Russia and the United States from 1992

In the late 1980s, Eastern European nations took advantage of the relaxation of Soviet control under Mikhail Gorbachev and began to break away from communist rule. The relationship greatly improved in the final years of the USSR.