Responding to journalists, the spokesman added that more than 20 heads of state will attend the Brics summit in the Russian city of Kazan, thus rebutting the West’s reiteraded argument that Russia is isolated.

‘Russia is not isolated. In the modern world it is very difficult to isolate any country, especially a state like the Russian Federation,’ Peskov noted.

The presidential spokesman said Russia, like many of its strategic partners, seeks relations based on international law, not on ‘norms established by individual states, namely the United States, to serve immediate interests’.

It is all about relations based on mutual respect with reciprocal concerns, on mutually beneficial cooperation.

Such approaches are absolutely attractive to a vast majority of the world’s states.

That is why the international talks, of which Russia is a part, are continuing, he added.

The Kremlin spokesman explained that when establishing dialogue no one tries to take dominant positions and impose his will on others.

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