Earlier, the US embassy said Sullivan had been summoned to the Foreign Ministry to “discuss bilateral relations”.
Russia has said the US ambassador was summoned for an interview at the Foreign Ministry in Moscow to be presented with “indisputable evidence” of interference in the Russian elections, AFP reported.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said there was only one reason for John Sullivan to be summoned for talks at Russia’s Foreign Ministry: “interference in the Russian elections,” TASS reported. Not what was written in the US embassy’s press release, “she said.
Earlier, the US embassy said Sullivan had been summoned to the Foreign Ministry to “discuss bilateral relations”.
Another statement posted on the Russian Foreign Ministry’s website said Sullivan had spoken to Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. “It was stressed in the conversation that the Russian side has indisputable evidence of violations of Russian laws by the American digital giants in the context of the preparations for the State Duma elections,” the Foreign Ministry said.
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