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US has increased efforts to recruit Russian diplomats in recent years – Lavrov Lavrov: US diplomats frequently took part in Russian opposition rallies
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US intelligence agencies have been actively trying to recruit senior Russian diplomats over the past several years, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who also said that US diplomats in Russia have engaged in espionage. US intelligence agencies have been actively trying to recruit senior Russian diplomats over the past several years, according to Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who also said that US diplomats in Russia have engaged in espionage and took part in opposition rallies.
“If we talk about recruitment techniques, we did not publicize the full statistics on that. But most recently, in the past few years, especially during the second term of Obama's administration, that unfriendly activity towards our diplomats has been growing in scale,” Lavrov said at a news conference on Tuesday.
According to the minister, US diplomats have also engaged in espionage in Russia and actively participated in the rallies staged by Russian opposition forces.
DETAILS TO FOLLOW “In addition to spying, US Embassy diplomats have repeatedly been seen taking part in the rallies of opposition, anti-government forces, unauthorized rallies, including times when they wore disguise. Do the math yourselves,” Lavrov stated.
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Lavrov dismissed allegations made by the Obama administration, which complained that the US Embassy in Russia was forced to work under allegedly intolerable conditions, with the US Ambassador “cut off” from all contacts, saying that evidence shows the situation was “absolutely the opposite” – that the diplomats’ movements were never restricted.
“They [the US diplomats] go to Kaliningrad, Leningrad, Murmansk, Voronezh regions. They were seen repeatedly in Novorossiysk, in the Chechen Republic, along the border with Donbas [Eastern Ukraine], traveled literally up and down the country,” he said.