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Elsewhere, Foreign Policy reports that right-wing politician Nikolai Travkin was deeply unhappy with Trump’s decision to fire former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn, and he said that Trump’s decision to ax the Russian-friendly adviser meant that he was now “close to failure.”[/size]And Leonid Slutsky, head of the Russian parliament’s foreign affairs committee, said this week that he and his colleagues had gotten ahead of themselves by assuming that Trump would carry out Russia’s foreign policy wishes instead of his own country’s.[/color][/size]“We were too early in our decision, made with absolute sympathy towards President Trump’s constructive rhetoric, that he would somehow be pro-Russian,” he said.[/color][/size]Earlier this week, we also learned that Russian President Vladimir Putin had instructed state media to stop being quite so effusive in its praise for Trump, as one Russian reporter told Bloomberg TV that “the fate of Russia-American relations is much less predictable than it was just a few weeks ago.”[/size]
