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Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov said that the patience of the Russian authorities concerning the situation with the country residences of the Russian Embassy in the United States is already “on the wane”. It is reported by RIA Novosti.
The representative of the Kremlin said that Moscow may respond to deprivation diplomatic “cottages” similar measures. “As for the principle, the principle of reciprocity we talked. <…> Already for the nuances, it is rather a question of our foreign Ministry”, – said Peskov.
In December last year, the U.S. government deported 35 Russian diplomats along with their families and shut down the residence of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in new York and Maryland. Such a measure, the American authorities explained the alleged Moscow’s intervention in the presidential election. Then, the Russian authorities have refrained from the use of “mirror” responses, decided to look at the actions of the new U.S. President Donald trump.
Earlier in mass media appeared information that the trump instructed the national security Council (NSC) of the White house to prepare a list of possible “concessions” that he could offer the head of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin in the forthcoming negotiations at the G20 summit.
Among one of the concessions was called the return of the Russian Embassy in the US diplomatic “cottages” in new York and Maryland.