MOSCOW (Sputnik) — He added that Russia is fully ready to begin working on restoring Russian-US relations without wasting time.
"We note that the US president-elect got actively involved in work to contact foreign leaders from the beginning. This, in our view, means that he is not only showing a considerable interest in it, but is paying very serious attention to the sphere," Ryabkov said in the Federation Council, the upper house of Russia's parliament.
Republican candidate Trump won the November 8 presidential elections in the United States, despite most of the analysts and opinion polls predicting his defeat to Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton.