“This is nonsense,” TASS leads Naryshkin’s answer to the corresponding question.

Earlier, Yahoo portal, citing ex-US officials, reported that the order of the administration of former US President Barack Obama to expel more than 30 Russian diplomats in 2016 was due to the fact that the summer cottages and some of the diplomats were allegedly involved in a counterintelligence operation, the purpose of which was FBI communications.

Sources said this "undermined the ability of the FBI to track Russian spies in the United States."

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called these messages fantastic.