Russia returned to the federal court of the Southern District of New York the documents of accusation "about interfering in the elections of 2016. in USA". In a covering letter, the Russian ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, indicated that such a trial violates the principle of the sovereignty of states, enshrined in international law.. "I have the honor to confirm that the Russian Federation did not and does not mean to give consent to the proceedings in the US courts," RIA Novosti quotes from the document signed by Antonov. A similar letter was sent by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, and the Foreign Ministry made a note demanding an end to steps that violate the sovereignty of the Russian Federation.. The case in the court of Manhattan initiated the US Democratic Party. She insists that the 2016 presidential campaign was turned in favor of Republican Donald Trump thanks to an organized cyber attack on the internal networks of the Democratic Party and the publication of private correspondence of its members. The defendants in the lawsuit at the insistence of the Democrats are: the Government of the Russian Federation, the General Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Federation, the Russian businessman Araz Agalarov and his son Emin, the WikiLeaks portal and its founder Julian Assange, the Donald Trump Presidential Foundation, the son and son-in-law of the current White House Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner, former head of Trump’s campaign staff Paul Manafort and his advisors Roger Stone, George Papadopoulos and Richard Gates, Kommersant reports. All of them allegedly entered into a criminal conspiracy to damage the reputation of the Democrats and move the Republican Trump ahead.. The defendants were required to familiarize themselves with the lawsuit and submit their objections to the court in New York before December 7. In Moscow, these allegations are more than once called absurd and unsubstantiated.