Russia’s Lavrov says there’s little difference between policies of Trump and Obama: RIA

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President Barack Obama welcome President-elect Donald Trump to the White House in Washington, DC January 20, 2017.

The actions of President Donald Trump’s team are similar to the policies of his predecessor Barack Obama, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview, state-run RIA news agency reported on Thursday.

“Unfortunately, many actions of Donald Trump’s team are inertial and, in fact, are little different from the line of Barack Obama,” RIA quoted Lavrov as saying in the interview with Italian newspaper Libero.