The building of the Russian Embassy in the United States
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MOSCOW, April 22. /TASS/. The Russian Embassy in the United States still considers the arrest of Russian citizen Roman Seleznev as illegal. The Russian foreign Ministry believe that the Russians, sentenced April 21, the Federal district court in Seattle (Washington state) to 27 years in prison for fraud, was “actually abducted by us intelligence agencies”.
“According to available information, his lawyers will appeal the court’s decision”, – stated in the message posted on the Embassy page in Facebook on Friday after the verdict to Russian.