The senator recalled that Russia has always been a defending country that fights against international terrorism.
In his opinion, the US is trying to shift the blame from itself to Russia.
“And they are doing this because all their efforts to turn Russia into a pariah country have failed.
Given the fact that they failed, they invented a new one: Russia is a “sponsor of terrorism,” Tsekov concluded.
Earlier, the US Senate passed a resolution calling on the State Department to recognize Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism due to events in Chechnya, Georgia, Syria and Ukraine.
The press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, said that the Kremlin negatively assesses the consequences for relations with the United States if Russia is recognized as a country that is a "sponsor of terrorism."