Putin rates Russia-U.S. relations as median

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday rated relations between Moscow and Washington as median on a scale of one-to-five.

"I would give them a three," Putin said in a video interview with TASS news agency entitled "20 Questions with Vladimir Putin."

"Between a two and a three. More like a three though," he added.

The Russian president said in the interview that U.S.-Russia trade turnover has started to grow in the last two years and that Moscow and Washington cooperated in the fight against terrorism.

However, he said, the United States kept imposing sanctions on Russia, in particular associated with the Nord Stream 2 pipeline constructed to supply Russian natural gas to Europe, in order to ensure competitive advantages for U.S.-produced liquefied gas.

(XINHUA)