“In this situation, the State Department, which was officially notified of the malfunction, simply averted the problem.
This position of the American authorities once again confirms the groundlessness of the accusations of the US Embassy in Moscow that American diplomats in Russia, unlike Russian diplomats in the United States, are forced to fulfill their duties in the most constrained conditions and circumstances.
Once again, we appeal to Washington to take all the necessary measures to restore normal communication for our diplomats in New York as soon as possible, ”she said during the briefing.
As Zakharova added, Moscow hopes that such a story is not an "invitation to reciprocity."
“I'm sure we have more interesting areas for its manifestation,” the diplomat concluded.
On January 20, the Russian embassy announced that it had sent a note to the State Department due to communication problems at the consulate.
According to the Consul of the Consulate General Alexei Topolsky, we are talking about several dozen telephone lines that were cut off from communication at one time, and because of this, the Russian diaspora living in the consular district "has huge problems."