That's enough.
And maybe it can even be a little easier for Russia to deal with the United States when Trump's whimsy disappears.
The United States is portrayed as Russia's great enemy, but knowing where its opponent is and being able to see where difficulties and threats are makes the job easier for the Kremlin.
Still, it is, of course, negative for President Putin and the stormy oligarchs who control Russia that the hope of abolished sanctions is fading.
The new US administration will not forget Russia's involvement in Trump's victory four years ago, will not accept Russia's seizure of the Crimean peninsula or the aggression in eastern Ukraine, and will respond more clearly to new Russians trying to disrupt the US and EU.
"Putin knows Biden will be more principled"
Even worse for the Kremlin is probably that the United States will now probably try to regain the global leadership role that the United States abdicated from under Trump.
A weaker and more fragmented EU and an American president who openly slandered NATO member countries increased Russia's influence.
Putin knows, and is prepared for, that Biden will be far more principled than Trump.
That Biden would - like George Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump - try to "restart" relations with the Kremlin is also almost impossible.
When Bush first met Putin in 2001, he said he had seen Putin in his eyes and could feel his soul.
"Learn to be cool between the countries in the future"
After a meeting with Putin in 2011, Biden told him:
- I've seen you in the eyes, and I do not think you have a soul.
"We understand each other," Putin replied.
So it will probably be chilly between the countries in the future.
In the areas where it is possible, both diplomatic contacts and practical cooperation may be facilitated if the United States under Biden gets a more well-thought-out foreign policy.
But a more well-thought-out US foreign policy is also likely to pose significant difficulties for Putin.