“The bitter reaction of the US authorities only confirms the justice of the ‘Berlin patient’ verdict. The US authorities prefer to ‘use the services’ of extremists to destabilize the situation in our country,” the Russian mission noted. calling the State Department’s statement “a rude attempt to interfere in the internal affairs of the country and influence the work of the independent judiciary of the Russian Federation.”
At the same time, the embassy noted that it is time for Washington to pay attention to its political scandals, as well as the growing number of cases of law enforcement being used to stifle free speech and persecute dissidents.
