On September 17, Interfax and Kommersant also reported, citing sources, that Moscow and Washington are coordinating the possibility of Nuland's arrival in Russia.
Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov, commenting on these messages, noted that she had not yet been issued a visa.
In the material of the newspaper, which refers to an informed source in Russian government agencies, it is specified that Nuland can get a visa, and her trip to Russia is not excluded already in October, and not in November, as mentioned earlier.
At the same time, Moscow, in particular, expects that the United States, in response, will issue a visa to Konstantin Vorontsov, a specialist in the Department of Nonproliferation and Arms Control of the Russian Foreign Ministry, who is responsible for multilateral disarmament issues and is to fly to New York to the UN headquarters to participate in work of the First Committee of the General Assembly, the publication emphasizes.
In February 2020, the organizational session of the UN commission was postponed due to the fact that Vorontsov was not issued an American visa.
In 2019, Nuland applied for a Russian visa to take part in a closed international conference in Moscow from May 20 to May 21, but the diplomat was denied a Russian visa, as it is included in the black lists introduced in response to similar US measures.