Zakharova saw the "media bottom" in the news about the contacts of the US prosecutor general

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, was asked about the “media bottom” in connection with the news about the hidden contacts of the US Prosecutor General Jeff Sashns with the Russian Ambassador to the USA Sergey Kislyak. Zakharova wrote about this on March 2 on Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/maria.zakharova.167/posts/10212640701802159

The attention of the representative of the Foreign Ministry was attracted by the publication of CNN, which states that American intelligence considers Kislyak as one of the high -ranking Russian spies and recruiters in Washington.

Earlier on March 1, The Washington Post has published an article about the two meetings of Sashns with Kislyak in 2016, about which, according to the publication, he kept silent when taking the oath in Congress. The newspaper indicated that one of the meetings occurred in September last year - the period that the US intelligence agencies consider the peak of the Russian hacker campaign, designed to influence the results of the presidential elections in the country.

The US Democratic Party immediately after the publication of The Washington Post called on Sashns to leave their post. However, he himself called the data given in the article false and emphasized that he had never met representatives of the Russian Federation and did not discuss the course of the presidential campaign with them.

In early February, The Washington Post published an article that stated that at the end of December 2016, Michael Flynn, adviser to the White House for National Security, was in contact with Kislyak. In a conversation, he allegedly advised Moscow “not too violently” to respond to new sanctions by the United States. A few days after the publication and the scandal she called, Flynn resigned.