MOSCOW. March 17 (Interfax-AVN) - The Russian Foreign Ministry finds it unnecessary to comment on allegations posted on the website of the Chechen separatists, and later repeated in the Russian media, which claimed that explosives had been brought to the Russian Embassy in France for acts of terrorism in that country.
"Such claims are a clinical case, a delirious agony," Mikhail Troaynsky, deputy director of the ministry's information department, told Interfax on Wednesday. He said he would not even comment on such fabrications.
The Federal Security Service (FSB) dismissed the allegation that Russian special services are planning acts of terrorism in France.
"This gibberish does not deserve any comment. We regret that many formerly respected media have started spreading deliberate falsehoods, and that is exactly what their inventors expect," Colonel Sergei Ignatchenko, chief of the FSB's information center, told Interfax on Wednesday.
The Russian media, quoting the Chechen separatist website, reported that 200 kilos of explosive had been allegedly brought through diplomatic channels into France and stored in the premises of the Russian Embassy in Paris, to be used in acts of terrorism planned by Russian special services in France.