"Americans have set a course for confrontation," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters after the US president said sanctions against Moscow over Ukraine had left the Russian economy in tatters.
"Obama's address yesterday shows that there's just one thing at the heart of (their) philosophy: 'We are number one' and the rest should acknowledge that."
"This is a bit out of date and does not correspond to modern realities," Russia's top diplomat added in televised remarks.
"It shows that the United States wants to dominate the world," he said, adding that "being first among equals" was not enough for Washington.
In his keynote State of the Union speech on Tuesday, Obama said "big nations can't bully small", a reference to Russia's annexation of Crimea and support for pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Referring to US policy towards the Kremlin over Ukraine, Obama said Moscow had been left isolated and its economy "in tatters."
Ties between Moscow and Washington fell to unprecedented post-Soviet lows after Russia's seizure of Crimea from Ukraine in March.
The United States slapped sanctions on Russia over the annexation of the peninsula and Moscow's support for Russian-speaking insurgents in eastern Ukraine where more than 4,800 people have lost their lives in the past months.
Lavrov struck a condescending note, saying attempts to isolate Russia would fail and Washington's "aggressive foreign policy" would one day become a thing of the past.
"I think it will pass," he said.
The Kremlin spokesman for his part said in an interview published on Wednesday that Western countries were trying to use the Ukraine conflict to topple Putin and wreck Russia's economy.
"In the West they are trying to kick out Putin, to isolate him in international politics, to throttle Russia economically due to their interests, to bring down Putin," Dmitry Peskov told Argumenty i Fakty weekly..........................AFP...............http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/120913.aspx
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Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, commenting on the statement from US President Barack Obama, who said in his State of the Union address that the Russian economy was "in tatters," called the American president a dreamer...
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Obama said in his address to the US Congress that today America was strong and united with its allies, whilst Russia was isolated, and its economy was "in tatters".
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