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Moscow has voiced a "decisive protest" against the illegal seizure of Russian diplomatic facilities in the United States and says it reserves right to retaliate, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said.
https://sputniknews.com/us/20171…
The ministry called the US actions in relation to Russian diplomatic facilities an "unprecedented abuse of power" in bilateral relations, saying that Moscow had "never given US authorities the right to lift immunity from the Russian diplomatic and consular property and did not allow any intrusion into its facilities."
"Washington has committed a new gross violation of international law: since December last year, the Americans have already seized five Russian diplomatic facilities that are our property, and now the entrance doors have been hacked and a total search has been conducted inside," the ministry said in a statement.
"They are intruders. Their actions are an unprecedented act of injustice in the history of bilateral relations," the ministry stressed, saying that a residential section of the San Francisco Consulate General has been "seized" along with a separate residence of the Russian consul general.