“From time to time I contact the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (of Russia. -
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) primarily about American citizens in custody, this is one of my main activities at the moment,” TASS quotes him.
In addition, according to Sullivan, the embassy works on the coordination of NASA and Roscosmos and supports the functioning of the embassy.
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs previously reported that as a result of a long negotiation process between Moscow and Washington, Trevor Reed, who was convicted in Russia for assaulting a police officer, was exchanged for Russian prisoner Konstantin Yaroshenko, imprisoned in an American prison.