The Coordinating Council of Organizations of Russian Compatriots in the & nbsp; USA (KSORS) has suspended work, according to & nbsp; its website.
< p> “ The decision was made in & nbsp; in connection with & nbsp; investigation of the American special services, in & nbsp; as a result of which for & nbsp; over the past year, & nbsp; at least three hundred Russian compatriots in & nbsp; USA, from & nbsp; students to & nbsp; pensioners, were subjected to investigative measures by the FBI & nbsp; & nbsp; & mdash; reported to the & nbsp; organization.
The & nbsp; KSORS noted that & nbsp; in & nbsp; in essence it is an informal, non-political advisory body that “ never & nbsp; intervened in the & nbsp; US domestic political agenda, did not & nbsp; had financial resources, did not & nbsp; received and & nbsp; did not give out & nbsp; any grants & nbsp; However, some members of the council and & nbsp; other representatives of the Russian community became involved in the investigation of & nbsp; violations of the laws on & nbsp; foreign agents, the & nbsp; organization reported.
According to the & nbsp; data of KSORS, during the & nbsp; interrogations, the FBI officers asked about the & nbsp; ties of compatriots with & nbsp; Russian organizations and & nbsp; state structures. “ Special attention was paid to the contacts of compatriots with & nbsp; representatives of the Russian diplomatic mission in the & nbsp; USA, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rossotrudnichestvo, the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs, the Moscow government, the Roscongress Foundation, the Russian Geographical Society and & nbsp; coordinators of the movement & ldquo; Immortal; nbsp; ; & mdash; said in the & nbsp; message.
This situation creates “an unacceptable atmosphere of bias and mistrust towards the Russian community,” said the KSORS.
The actions of the American special services in the & nbsp; organization were considered “ unprecedented pressure on the & nbsp; Russian community '' and & nbsp; prior to & nbsp; receiving clarification from & nbsp; US authorities refused to host any events.
The & nbsp; Russian Embassy in the & nbsp; United States, commenting on the suspension of the work of the KSORS, said that & nbsp; “ outraged by the hostile actions of the United States against compatriots under the pretext of suspicion of & nbsp; working in & nbsp; US territory without & nbsp; registration in & nbsp ;. as foreign agents & nbsp;
According to the & nbsp; diplomatic mission, FBI officers “ sometimes in a rude form, conducted searches and & nbsp; interrogations of representatives of the diaspora, confiscated personal belongings. '' The embassy regards these actions as unfriendly in & nbsp; relation to & nbsp; Russia.
“ Thus, the US authorities deny immigrants from & nbsp; Russia the & nbsp; right to maintain contact with & nbsp; their historical homeland, to take an active part in & nbsp; preserve their own cultural and & nbsp ; linguistic heritage. The social activities of our fellow citizens are absolutely open, transparent ', & nbsp; & mdash; declared at the & nbsp; embassy, ​​demanding an end to the “ persecution of representatives of the Russian diaspora. ''