Because of “attempts to interfere” – Moscow names three US organizations “undesirable”. If US embassy representatives take part in such actions, they would face expulsion, the State Department said.

The Russian Foreign Ministry claimed on Monday that it had summoned the German ambassador. However, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff only appeared at a meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Moscow that had been planned for some time. The German ambassador to Russia was not asked to speak about the Taurus wiretapping affair.