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Moscow expects that the so-called embassy cottages in New York and Maryland will be returned to the American authorities to the meeting of the presidents of Russia and the USA outlined in July. It is reported by "Kommersant" with reference to diplomatic sources.

“If a situation arises when Washington does not resume the diplomatic immunity of our property, then the response regarding American objects in Russia will be mirrored. The US Embassy in Moscow has already been warned about this,” the representative of the Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said on Thursday at a briefing. “We demand that we immediately return to us that it is completely illegal.”

Russia may arrest the US state ownership in Moscow, sources of publication said. We can talk about a diplomatic residence in the Silver Bor, as well as a warehouse on the road street.

In addition, from the Anglo-American school in Moscow, they may require register in accordance with Russian laws. Now it does not have a Russian educational license and works on the basis of a commercial contract with three embassies.

In addition, according to sources, Moscow does not exclude the possibility of introducing other “asymmetric” measures.

On Wednesday, the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov said that the meeting of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump could take place at the Great Twenth summit in Hamburg on July 7-8. However, its date has not yet been agreed, and negotiations can pass without a traditional statement for media representatives

At the end of December, the Barack Obama administration gave Russian diplomats 24 hours to free both embassy cottages. As the US President said then, these dachas were used by Russian intelligence. At the same time, 35 diplomats were sent from the United States. This step followed in connection with Moscow’s intervention in the elections and persecution of American diplomats in Russia.

Then the Russian side did not take response. As it turned out later, Michael Flynn, then adviser to Donald Trump, promised in a telephone conversation with the Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak that under the new administration the conflict would be resolved.

After Trump’s inauguration, the Russian side publicly protested against the “expropriation” of diplomatic property and threatened with response measures .

On June 1, The Washington Post reported that the US administration was going to return the embassy cottages to the Russian side . In early May, the American side linked this issue with the allocation of a site for the construction of a new US Consulate building in St. Petersburg. However, then Washington changed the position of which the Secretary of State Rex Tillerson informed Russian colleague Sergei Lavrov at a meeting on May 10.

The American side, however, is considering the removal of diplomatic immunity from the embassy cottages, which will open access there to law enforcement agencies.

In October last year, the Russian authorities blocked the already concluded deal to buy a plot for the US Consulate General in St. Petersburg. Since 1972, the consulate has been working in house number 15 on Furshtatskaya Street. In addition to St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, it serves eight more subjects of the Federation.