"Explicit mockery" was called at the Russian embassy in the US by the State Department explanations of the reasons for the searches by the US special services of Russian state property. Their actions, which in fact violate the norms of international law, Washington cynically announced an excursion.

After searching the buildings of the General Consulate of the Russian Federation in San Francisco and the Russian Trade Mission in Washington, the US authorities went to "an unprecedented step that is contrary to bilateral conventions, international law and the domestic law of the US itself". The Russian diplomats who fulfilled their mission in the United States commented on the situation.

Earlier, State Department spokesman Heather Neuert admitted that the premises of the Russian trade mission and the consulate general were visited by the staff of the Diplomatic Security Service of the State Department. But their visit, in her opinion, was purely excursionary in nature. In her comments, she stressed that the word "circumvention" in this case is inappropriate, and used the word tour, which can be translated as a tour, tour.

The Russian side took such explanations as "frankly mocking": "Where is the guarantee that for the purposes of such" walks "the representatives of the American special services will not come next time with a raid on our other objects of diplomatic capacity, or in official representations of other states in the US? message on the page of the Russian embassy in Facebook. - If diplomatic immunity is so easily answered by the American side, what to expect next? ", Russian diplomats refer to readers.

The FBI agents searched the premises belonging to Russia on September 2, when the buildings were left by Russian employees. On 31 August, they received an order to close the mission in two days. On the Russian Federation's instruction that it is Russian property that can be closed but not transferred to someone else's property, a clear answer was received: "If the doors are closed, they will be hacked," said Maria Zakharova, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Later, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs published video footage of the search, during which agents opened expensive parquet, suspended ceilings, inspected the roof. However, this did not prevent the State Department from denying that there was nothing like this. According to the representative of the department, hired workers were invited to the premises, who must ensure the safety of the property and carry out the necessary repairs.

On the eve of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Washington's actions compel Moscow to equalize the working conditions of diplomats of the two countries.