Parking at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow became available to all due to the acute shortage of Parking spaces. About it RIA Novosti reported on Friday, September 15 at gku “administrator of the Moscow Parking space”.
“Due to the acute shortage of Parking spaces at the address: Bolshoy devyatinsky pereulok Parking on this street is now available to all”, — stated in the message.
Earlier, the state Department said that Parking for the employees of American consulates removed, and this issue was planned to raise in the foreign Ministry.
On 11 September, the newspaper “Kommersant” with reference to diplomatic sources reported that Russia may deprive employees of diplomatic missions of the USA the possibility to use the allocated Parking lots around the diplomatic missions. In addition, it was noted that there is the option of limiting the number of entry points into the country for U.S. diplomats.
September 2, Russia at the request of the U.S. closed the Consulate General in San Francisco, in the building were searched. As stated by the American side, such demands were a response to Moscow’s proposal to reduce to 455 the number of staff employed in diplomatic missions of the USA in Russia. Earlier, the Russian foreign Ministry responded thus to the adoption by the Senate of the Congress of the bill, which toughens sanctions against Russia.