MOSCOW. Feb 26 (Interfax) - The Russian State Duma commission investigating interference in domestic affairs by foreign states has detected instances of meddling in Russian elections by the United States Embassy in Moscow and is sending relevant materials to the Foreign Ministry, the commission's chairman Vasily Piskaryov said.
"The U.S. Embassy in Moscow is actively using its Russian-language information resources to interfere in the Russian presidential election," Piskaryov told journalists on Monday.
"The U.S. Embassy's website and social media accounts have long overstepped the limits of its representative functions and are regularly posting political information of a destructive nature," he said.
"We regard such actions as [constituting] interference in our country's internal affairs. The U.S. ambassador's clearly overstepping the limits of diplomatic norm and rules ahead of elections is not to be ignored, the commission will forward the gathered materials to the Russian Foreign Ministry," Piskaryov said.