The Department of Information and Press of the Russian Foreign Ministry, responding to a request for comment on the situation, noted that all the data that can be provided at the moment is contained in the FSB comments.
“For our part, we can additionally inform that the US Embassy in Moscow, in strict accordance with the bilateral consular convention, was promptly notified of the fact of detention,” RIA Novosti reports the message of diplomats.
On December 31, the FSB announced that they had detained a citizen of the United States Paul Whelan in Moscow during a spy action.
In the State Duma commented RT what happened.