The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation says that the US embassy in Moscow periodically secretly transfers money to opposition groups to destabilize the political situation in our country. This is on Thursday, January 18, according to a Russian diplomatic commentary posted on his website. "Unlike the US embassies, often resorting to covert transfer of funds of various kinds to opposition groups, including to destabilize the domestic political situation, Russia does not deal with such things," the ministry said.. This statement was issued in connection with the publication by the portal BuzzFeed of confidential information on the transactions of Russian diplomatic institutions in the United States and a number of employees of the Russian embassy. The department noted that this resource is an information tool of the US special services and such a publication could not occur without the knowledge of the authorities of the United States. The Foreign Ministry argues that the publication used the contact information of Russian diplomats from their bank questionnaires that can not be obtained without the sanction of the relevant US government agencies. "In other words, the encroachment on the inviolability of the accounts of the Embassy of Russia and its employees with diplomatic immunity is the work of official Washington," the statement says.. Moscow calls such actions a real crime. The Foreign Ministry notes that the "American Russophobes" intended this publication with the help of fraudulent findings to prove the alleged interference of the Russian Federation in the elections in the United States.

"The initiators of the next anti-Russian provocation are trying to give a conspiracy character to the usual remittances of the salary, the transfer of earned money by the diplomats home after the end of business trips and payments to construction companies for repairs," the ministry said.. Moscow accused Washington of violating the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961 and called on "the United States to stop this practice, return to decent conduct, renew responsible and respectful interstate communication". And also demanded that Americans comply with their own national legislation.