"We are most urgently at all levels demanding an unconditional return and, of course, compensation for the losses that we have suffered," RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
He noted that a total of six objects were confiscated.
“Over the past few years, the Embassy, I specifically specified this figure today, we have applied to the State Department 470 times with a request to allow us to visit the facilities, take an inventory, see the condition of buildings and structures.
We are regularly denied, ”he added.
Earlier, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov suggested that the United States send diplomatic staff to Moscow so that "at least consular services are provided in a more or less normal volume."