Image by Eugene Zelenko The Russian Foreign Ministry said today that is summoned the U.S. charge d‘affaires in Moscow to protest the removal of Russian flags from the former Russian consulate in San Francisco, reported Reuters. The issue of the forced shutdown, search, and now removal of Russian flags from…
Russia May Retaliate Over SF Consulate Seizure.
Image by ДИП МИД РФ (фотограф Эдуард Песов) The closure and searches of the Russian consulate in San Francisco, and the Russian trade mission in Washington, D.C., continues to send the Russian Foreign Ministry into hyperventilation. Moscow has characterized the incidents as a violation of the Vienna diplomatic agreements and…
It hasn’t been talked about much in the Western press, but the closure of the Russian Consulate in San Francisco was a big deal. In fact, it was a very big deal in Moscow, and the accompanying searches of the Russian trade ministry in Washington caused an even bigger stir….
Russia will sue for the protection of Russian diplomatic property in U.S. courts after the Trump administration closed the Russian consulate in San Francisco and seized the Russian trade mission in Washington, D.C. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told American Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson about the decision over the…
Smoke Rising From Russian San Fransisco Consulate…Occupants Won’t Allow SFFD In.
In a ‘tit-for-tat’ move against Russia ordering almost 800 U.S. diplomats to leave the country, the Trump administration has ordered Russia to close its consulate in San Fransisco and reduce operations in New York and Washington, D.C. It described Moscow’s actions to reduce Washington’s diplomatic staff ‘unwarranted.’ “The United States…