Russia's Foreign Ministry accused of spying for the FBI. Representative of the Ministry Maria Zakharova in an interview with "Kommersant FM» radio stations announced, that the charges should be considered in the context of elections.
Portal Yahoo News, citing its own sources, published material, in which he accused Russia of spying for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. According portal, Moscow used suburban complexes, at the disposal of the Russian Foreign Ministry, as the headquarters for the US authorities to intercept signals. On the territory of complex equipment was allegedly, needed for these purposes.
The charges relate to the period of President Barack Obama's reign. Then, in the end of December 2016 year against the Russian Federation introduced a number of sanctions, as "a response to intervention in the US elections". Besides, US deported 35 Russian diplomats and members of their families, and closed dachas permanent Russian representative offices in New York and the Embassy of the United States capital of Washington.
In its turn, spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, in an interview with radio station "" Kommersant FM », He stated, that the article appeared on the background of the election campaign for the presidential election in the US: they have to go in the next year.
Electoral cycle in the United States is such a fun carousel. To all this has to be treated, one side. With another, Russia, certainly, each such incident will comment.
– said Zakharov.
Foreign Ministry spokesman says, that soon all of us will get to know "a lot of fantastic stories, unexpected discoveries, amazing foresight, or, perhaps, excavation of the past ". Maria Zakharova also notes, that the charges will be commented by employees of the Russian Embassy in Washington, DC.
