Posted on May 3, 2021. Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev on the crisis in relations with the U.S. and the way out of it. Russian-American relations are their lowest level since the end of the Cold War. The already tense situation escalated further following an interview with U.S. President Joe Biden, in which he insulted his Russian colleague, Vladimir Putin, point-blank. In a conversation with Kommersant correspondent Yelena Chernenko, Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, described on what conditions Moscow is prepared to cooperate with Washington in the future.