ALEXANDER NIKITIN, Professor and Director of the Center for Euro-Atlantic Security, MGIMO University, Moscow:
The reset gave Russia many hopes. It  provides conditions for domestic modernisation.

JEREMY SHAPIRO, Special Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs,U. S. Department of State, Washington, D. C.:
„the goal is not to have a good relationship and, but a substantive relationship“- some kind of multidimensional relationship between Russia and USA

AMB. MIROSLAV LAJČÁK, Managing Director, Europe and Central Asia, European External Actions Service, Brussels; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic (2009 – 2010):
Russia´s goal is not to create a multipolar world, but to gain economic strength.