The Russian Embassy in Washington demanded that the US stop the persecution of the Russian diaspora 
The Russian Embassy in Washington appealed to the US authorities to stop the persecution of the Russian diaspora , according to RIA Novosti. This statement was made after the announcement that the Coordinating Council of Organizations of Russian Compatriots in the United States (KSORS) was forced to suspend its activities due to an investigation by the American special services.
The reason is the unprecedented pressure on the representatives of the Russian-speaking community by the American authorities that has been continuing for a number of years
Russian Embassy in Washington
The diplomats stressed that the United States is conducting hostile activities against the Russians, hiding behind suspicions of working on American soil without registering as foreign agents. Moreover, it is noted that the FBI officers in a rude manner conducted searches and interrogated representatives of the diaspora, taking their personal belongings. The embassy said that they consider such steps unfriendly towards Russia.
Chairman of the KSORS Elena Branson also expressed the hope that the Americans will end their persecution of Russian foreign agents. She noted that currently there is a tendency towards an increase in the process of repatriation of Russians to their homeland.
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She added that over the past year, as part of an investigation into violations of the laws on foreign agents, American special services interrogated several hundred of the most active representatives of the Russian diaspora in the United States. According to Branson, KSORS members may be targeted.
The decision to close the organization was made due to the activities of the FBI in relation to KSORS. Throughout 2021, at least 300 Russians in the United States, from students to retirees, were subjected to FBI investigative measures, the council noted.
Problems in relations between Russia and the United States
Conflicts have arisen in relations between Moscow and Washington more than once. flowing into a long showdown, recriminations and a number of restrictions. So over the past few years, both sides of the negotiations were forced to expel part of the staff of their diplomats, as well as to close a number of consulates.
At the end of December 2016, the Barack Obama administration expelled Russian diplomats and closed access to suburban residential embassy complexes in Maryland and in the city of New York. Initially, Moscow left this step unanswered, counting on positive progress on this issue with the arrival of Donald Trump in the White House, but this did not happen.
455 employees remained after in June 2017 the Russian authorities demanded that the United States reduce the number of its employees. diplomats in Russia for 755 people
In early September 2017, at the request of the American authorities, the Russian Consulate General in San Francisco and trade missions in Washington and New York were closed, and in April 2018, the US leadership closed the Russian Consulate General in Seattle and demanded that the Consulate General's residence in this city be vacated. p>
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, in turn, said that Moscow has called for an increase in the number of employees of American consulates in Russia. He explained that such a step is necessary in order to normalize visa services in US diplomatic missions in Russia. He expressed the hope that the parties will soon be able to achieve some progress.
Russia's representative in the Sixth Committee of the UN General Assembly, Sergei Leonidchenko, indicated that the Russian delegation has been facing problems for more than four years, which are caused by the improper fulfillment by the United States of obligations under the Agreement on Headquarters, adding that Moscow has asked the United Nations Secretary General for help over problems with US visas to diplomats.