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Russia Embassy to US slams the Washington Post for misleading readers on diplomatic crisis

Washington, Dec 26 (Sputnik) The Russian Embassy to the United States has criticized The Washington Post newspaper for misleading readers about the diplomatic crisis in the Russian-US relations.
On Friday, The Washington Post published an article called “How bad are US relations with Russia? Just try getting a visa for a repairman,” in which the newspaper said that the US Embassy in Moscow had been understaffed and overstretched because any diplomatic visa requires hard negotiations that often focus on insignificant issues. As a result of that, US technical experts – needed for example to repair malfunctioning elevators and fire alarms – cannot get visas, while senior diplomats have to do routine work such as shoveling snow and mix disinfectants.
“We took note of the article published in the Friday electronic version of The Washington Post, in which, referring to sources in the U.S. State Department, the authors once again mislead their readers and seek to place all the blame for problems related to consular and visa matters on the Russian side. The information contained in the article does not correspond to the real state of affairs. We would like to remind once again that the responsibility for this ‘stalemate’ lies entirely with the American side,” the embassy wrote on its Facebook page on late Friday.
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