The Foreign Ministry warned compatriots about the "hunt" of the US special services for citizens of the Russian Federation in third countries

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation warned citizens about the existence of "a real threat to detain and even arrest at the demands of law enforcement agencies in the United States in third countries." This warning was published on the official website of the domestic foreign policy.

Moscow stated the fact that "American special services continue the actual" hunt "for Russians around the world. Examples in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were given by the detention in SpainStanislav Lisov and Pyotr Levashov , in Latvia - Yuri Martyshev, in Canada - R. Mansurov, in Greece - Alexander Vinnik .

"It came to the real abductions of our compatriots. This happened with Konstantin Yaroshenko , who was captured in 2010 in Liberia and secretly - in violation of the national legislation of this country and international law - exported to the United States, as well as Roman Seleznev , which American agents literally stole from the Maldives in July 2014 and forcibly transported to American territory," the territory recalled, "the Moscow.

After extradition in the United States, the Russians are confident in the Foreign Ministry "are faced with a biased attitude from American" justice ". Russian diplomats emphasize that Russians in the United States" with different methods, including direct threats, try to persuade their guilt, despite the far -fetchedness of many accusations, and in the event of a refusal they say for huge prison terms, "and resemble the stories of the same Yaroshenko and Viktor. Buta .

In conclusion, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs again emphasized that the Russians, when planning trips abroad, must "carefully weigh all the risks, especially if there is reason to assume the presence of claims from American law enforcement agencies."

The other day, it became known that the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was submitted to the Kremlin Report submitted by the American Congress in the framework of the law "On Countering the opponents of America through sanctions." He appears in Appendix “A” to the report - in the list of 114 high -ranking Russian officials.

In the Kremlin, the publication of such a list was called unprecedented , and Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov explained that Russian politicians included in it are “US enemies”. The representative of the Kremlin admitted that this publication may damage the image of the Russian citizens who fell into it.

Lavrov himself has not yet commented on his presence on the lists of the Kremlin Report, but he previously stated that Washington could not change the Kremlin’s foreign policy, which "their authors could already see over the years of the sanctions."