The Unites States proactively gets engaged in regime change attempts throughout the world, says a top foreign policy adviser to Republican presumed nominee Donald Trump on a visit to Russia.

Addressing Russian students at Moscow's New Economic School, Carter Page accused Washington of taking "proactive steps to encourage regime change overseas."

"This may understandably advance a certain level of insecurity," Page said, adding, the post-Soviet world had also suffered from of the West’s double policies.

Page (pictured below) did not comment about ties between Washington and Moscow after the 2016 vote.

He also declined to say if he was visiting any officials of the Russian government.

In an interview with CNN last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow will “work with any president that the American people will vote for."

"I know that there are complex economic and political processes in the United States. At the moment, the world needs a country as strong as the US is. And we do need the US, too,” Putin said.

Putin also praised Trump for being “bright” as well as for proposing to “restore full-fledged Russian-American relations."

Relations between Washington and Moscow are in tatters largely due to the Ukraine crisis. The US and its allies accuse Moscow of sending troops into eastern Ukraine in support of the pro-Russian forces. Moscow has long denied involvement in Ukraine's crisis.

In an interview with Carter in March, Bloomberg described him as “a globe-trotting American investment banker who's built a career on deals with Russia .”