When Donald Trump was elected, Russian politicians celebrated. But just like his predecessors, Trump has failed to build a better relationship with the cold-war era adversary.
Programme director Arkady Moshes from the Finnish Institute of International Affairs believes the US-Russian relationship is doomed to stay bad regardless of who wins in November.
“It’s practically impossible, that Russia would give the United States what it wants and the other way round,” he says.
“We’re basically stuck in a very difficult and complicated relationship that is not going to get any better any time soon.”