With an "unprecedented decision" ... Russia responds to Biden's abuse of Putin
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Russia has responded to the abuse of US President Joe Biden against Russian President Vladimir Putin with an "unprecedented decision," the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said on Wednesday.
And the official spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Akhrova, announced that the invitation of the Russian ambassador in Washington to Moscow for consultations to assess the prospects for evaluating relations with the United States is an unprecedented event in the history of bilateral relations.
"I do not remember an event like this," Zakharova said on "Russia 1" channel, in response to a question about whether this step could be considered the first summoning of an ambassador for consultations.
She explained, "It is a call for consultation. We should be less emotional, and everything that was stated in the Foreign Ministry's statement is quite clear."
Yesterday, Wednesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that the Russian ambassador in Washington, Anatoly Antonov, had been summoned to Moscow to consult and analyze the future of Russian-American relations, noting that Moscow was interested in preventing the deterioration of relations with Washington.
The Russian Foreign Ministry’s statement in this regard stated: “The Russian ambassador in Washington has been invited to Moscow for consultations aimed at analyzing what needs to be done and where relations with the United States are heading. The new American administration has been in power for nearly two months, and the symbolic limit has approached. One hundred days after coming to power, and this is a good reason to try to assess what the Joe Biden team has been able to do. "
The statement continued, "It is important for us to identify ways to correct the difficult state of Russian-American relations, which Washington has led over the past years to a dead end. We are interested in preventing its irreversible deterioration if the Americans realize the risks associated with this. This will be discussed." During the discussions of the Russian Foreign Ministry and other concerned parties with the Russian ambassador in Washington. "
Washington accused Moscow of interfering in the US elections, as US President Joe Biden described his Russian counterpart as a "murderer", asserting that he would "pay the price for his interference in the recent US presidential elections."
Biden noted that during a conversation in January, he had warned his Russian counterpart of the potential consequences.
A US intelligence report on foreign threats to the 2020 elections said on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized efforts to undermine then-Democratic candidate Joe Biden (incumbent president).
Moscow has repeatedly denied such US accusations, and Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said earlier that Washington has been accusing Moscow of constantly interfering in its internal affairs without evidence.
The Russian Foreign Ministry also announced that there is evidence that Russia did not interfere in the US elections, and the Special Representative of the President of Russia for International Cooperation in the Field of Information Security, Andrei Krotskykh, told the "Kommersant" newspaper that the United States is blocking the publication of this evidence.
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