On May, 7, during the meeting with the president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin US Secretary of State John Kerri declared that the States and Russia need to support high level of cooperation — the same which was in the years of World War II. "As you know and you know it better, than someone else, we have to solve a number of difficult tasks which decision demands the same level of cooperation".
Next day after Putin's meeting with Kerry, already on May, 8, Surkov was dismissed by Putin from a post of the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia — with formulation "voluntarily".