"Russia will concentrate on building good, mutually beneficial relations with the European Union – while preserving all differences [within the EU] – and with member states of the European Union separately," Peskov told reporters.
He stressed that Moscow continued to call for the resumption of contacts with the United Kingdom in areas where London suspended them, adding that the so-called Brexit outcome did not exclude Russia’s bilateral ties with the UK.
Drawing direct parallels between the United Kingdom leaving EU and the fall of the Soviet Union is unnecessary, though turbulence and unpredictability is obvious following the referendum, according to Peskov.
"Russia is a country that has gone through very difficult times throughout its history. Russia is a country that survived the fall of the Soviet Union. Many generations clearly remember the period of the Soviet Union's fall, therefore, of course, drawing direct parallels is, perhaps, unreasonable. But it is clear that this is a turbulent, unclear, unpredictable time," Peskov told reporters.
