MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Wednesday it did not expect the incoming U.S. administration to reject NATO enlargement overnight and that almost all communications channels between Russia and the United States were frozen, the RIA news agency reported. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia did not expect the incoming U.S. administration to quickly reject enlargement of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and that almost all communication with the United States had ceased, according to Russia’s RIA news agency. We don’t communicate with one another, or (if we do) we do so minimally,” Peskov said

RIA, citing an interview it said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov gave to the Mir TV station, quoted Peskov as saying he did not know whether President Vladimir Putin would seek re-election in 2018. U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby responded by saying that the dialogue has continued despite differences, stressing that "diplomatic engagement with Russia continues across a wide range of issues." "That we have significant differences with Moscow on some of these issues is well known, but there hasn’t been a break in dialogue," Kirby said, adding that Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov had spoken on the phone about the situation in Syria Tuesday.
The Kremlin says almost all communications channels with the United States are frozen. The U.S. State Department says the dialogue with Russia continues despite their differences.