Thus, the ministry responded to the statement of the American embassy on the observation of reports of illegal actions in Russia.
“We checked what you (US Embassy Moscow) wrote on January 6 during the demonstrations in Washington and the capture of the Capitol.
Oddly enough, you haven't written anything.
They didn’t motivate their citizens to peaceful protests, they didn’t condemn the killing of five people and the detention of more than 100 people, ”the Foreign Ministry said on Facebook.
They recalled that on January 8, Ambassador John Sullivan called the capture of the Capitol a "criminal attack" and noted that "the power of the aggressive crowd has never been and was not" part of the US constitutional system.
“The entire planet saw how your government turned a peaceful protest into a non-peaceful protest when the police started shooting at the demonstrators.
(When will you answer for the numerous attacks by US police on Russian journalists covering US protests during 2020?) And then the US government called the actions of peaceful US protesters an "attack on democracy."
Hypocrisy is a tool of American diplomacy that has become especially dangerous during the period of the COVID epidemic, ”Moscow said.
They called on the United States to tackle its own problems and stop interfering in the internal affairs of other states.
Earlier, the Foreign Ministry said that American diplomats would have to explain themselves on Smolenskaya Square after the publication of "protest routes" in Russian cities.