“Extradition requests are considered confidential interstate communications, so we cannot comment on the existence of an extradition request until it is made public by the court,” TASS quoted department spokesman Ian MacLeod as saying.

Earlier, the Russian Embassy in Ottawa stated that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was behind the invitation of Nazi Yaroslav Gunka to the Canadian parliament last September.

During a plenary meeting of the Valdai Club, Vladimir Putin said that the speaker of the Canadian parliament could not help but understand who he was applauding, so he was either a scoundrel or an idiot.