According to him, the Russian side assesses this event positively.

“We have a positive attitude to this, because there has been less another shock in international relations,” RIA Novosti quotes him.

Earlier it was reported that the UK and EU negotiators were able to agree on a trade deal on Brexit.

Vladimir Schweitzer, head of the department of social and political research at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, commented in an interview with RT on the message about the deal between the EU and Britain.