MANILA. Nov 14 (Interfax) - Russia-U.S. relations have reached their lowest point in recent decades, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told a press conference.
"It is bad that our relations are degrading day by day although we still have contacts and can discuss certain issues," Medvedev said.
"In fact, they have reached the lowest point in recent decades," he said.
Medvedev said he had poor memory of what relations between Moscow and Washington looked like in the late 1970s - early 1980s.
"To be frank, I am not sure that our relations were worse back then," he said.
"Still, there were no laws imposing sanctions on countries seen by the United States as its enemy," in that period, Medvedev said.
"There is such a law now, and it is applied in straightforward terms," he said.
U.S. appeals for interaction with Russia on the most complex global affairs, such as the fight against terrorism, and the settlement of the North Korea situation, look surprising against that backdrop, Medvedev said.
"On the other hand, such decisions brand us as not just as opponents but actual enemies in a rather categorical manner. This stance is inconsistent, to say the least," Medvedev said.