"The fragmentary aspects of the voluminous visa dossier, which can be used to find mutual understanding, do not change the overall very negative and increasingly alarming picture," RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

Ryabkov noted that the State Department "has been deliberately, deliberately misleading the public in Russia and the United States for several days, pretending that there has been some serious progress."

Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that the United States was destroying the system of international relations.