Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in conversation with U.S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson said about the illegitimacy of the pressure on printed and electronic publications of Russia and diplomats in the United States, including attempts to recruit from the special services, according to a report to the Russian Ministry of foreign Affairs.
The meeting was held on the sidelines of the meeting of the Council of Ministers of foreign Affairs of the States-participants of OSCE in Vienna.
yesterday the official representative the Ministry of foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova said of "the numerous and multi-stage" the attempted recruitment of Russian correspondents from the American special services. The example of it, without naming names, cited the case of journalist that the Americans first offered cooperation, then tried to act through a bribe, and when that didn't work, moved on to psychological pressure and even direct threats.
According to Zakharova, the us state Department often refuse to clarify these questions, however, after the fact, as Lavrov picked them up at the meeting with Tillerson, " to talk about the fact that they have no information, it will not succeed ".
over the past period of time, print and electronic publications of Russia in the United States are subjected to unprecedented pressure. So, the television channel RT was forced to enter their information in the form of inherent, and then because this status was deprived of accreditation in the us Congress.
in addition, Lavrov and Tillerson discussed the most topical issues of international agenda: the conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic and Ukraine and the situation around North Korea.
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