MOSCOW. Sept 8 (Interfax) - Moscow says the FBI and other U.S. special services are behind the U.S. authorities' actions on the Russian diplomatic property.
"According to our information, as we understand it, officials from the U.S. special services and directly from the FBI are among those behind the events involving Russian diplomats that are now taking place," Russian Foreign Ministry official Maria Zakharova told a briefing in Moscow on Friday.
What is happening is "essentially a raiding takeover of the property of the Russian diplomatic mission," she said.
Commenting on the statements by U.S. Department of State officials that all actions taken by Washington are aimed at normalizing bilateral Russian-U.S. relations, the Russian Foreign Ministry official said: "It is possible that the Department of State indeed wants normalization of relations with Russia, and it is possible that what we hear at Department of State briefings is sincere statements. It is possible that the United States has no unified, integral, agenda on Russia."