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More than 50 Russian citizens have been arrested since 2008 in third countries at the request of the American authorities, RIA Novosti reports. The Russian Foreign Ministry called these actions of the United States an illegal extraterritorial application of American law.
According to the representative of the foreign policy department Maria Zakharova, such a tactic cannot be considered acceptable. She stressed that cases with the detention of Russian citizens with political motives, unfortunately, are becoming routine for employees of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
The Russian Foreign Ministry had previously warned citizens of the country traveling to the United States that they might be prosecuted by the American police and special services. Russian diplomats recalled that the risk of arrest existed both in the United States and in other countries at the request of American law enforcement officers. Over the past seven years, the Russian Foreign Ministry has published similar warnings on several occasions in connection with the unjustified detentions of Russians.
Russians, finding themselves under arrest overseas, often become victims of "prejudice" and "legal arbitrariness." The Foreign Ministry recalls that the closure of the Russian consulates general in San Francisco and Seattle at the request of the United States makes it difficult to provide assistance to compatriots persecuted by American law enforcement agencies.
Russkiy Mir
