On its website, the United States Embassy in Mosco indicated the times and places of demonstrations which were scheduled for this Saturday, January 23, in several cities of the country.
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Mikhail Tereshchenko / TASS
"Blatant interference".
The US Embassy in Moscow will have to explain the publication on its website of the "routes" of demonstrations by opponents in Russia on Saturday, said the Russian Foreign Ministry.
"What was it about, influencing or giving instructions (to the demonstrators)?
Russian diplomacy spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on Facebook.
"The American colleagues will have to come and explain themselves on Smolenskaya Square" [the address of the Russian ministry] on this interference, she added.
"An incentive" to demonstrate
On its website, the United States Embassy in Russia indicated the times and places of demonstrations - not authorized by the government - which were scheduled for this Saturday, January 23, in several cities of the country.
For the Russian diplomat, it was a question of encouraging the demonstrators.
According to her, if the Russian embassy in Washington had done so, it would have resulted in "threats of sanctions and expulsions of Russian diplomats".
American diplomats did not react immediately.
The spokeswoman for the United States Embassy, however, denounced the hundreds of arrests of demonstrators during the protest actions on Saturday.
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