The building of the Russian Embassy in Washington. File photoMOSCOW, June 8Former UN Deputy Secretary General Sergei Ordzhonikidze called «rudeness multiplied by ignorance» a proposal to condemn the actions of the President of the Russian Federation, which the Russian ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, received by mail. Earlier, Antonov said that he had received a letter with a proposal to condemn the actions of the President of the Russian Federation, in which he was also advised contact the Office of the First Deputy Secretary of State. According to him, also at the Russian embassy they hand out cards supposedly with FBI contacts and offer to talk with intelligence officers. In addition, articles appear in the American media calling on Russian servicemen and Russian diplomats to betray their homeland.Antonov said that the FBI is calling on Russian diplomats to betray their homeland «This is rudeness towards our ambassador, such political rudeness, and human too — to offer the ambassador to betray the homeland, you don't have to have a head at all to guess such a thing. This is illiteracy, what do they think , are our diplomats all traitors?» — Ordzhonikidze said in an interview with RIA Novosti. «Rudeness, bordering on complete ignorance — you must absolutely not understand, not know our people who work there in order to make such proposals, especially to Ambassador Antonov, who used to work as Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation» , — the source of the agency emphasized. neat.» «Of course, there were precedents, the Americans always made recruitment offers to our diplomats who work both in the embassy in Washington and in the UN office in New York. They did this, but in a somewhat more accurate form, during personal meetings — some the American diplomat introduced his friend, and the friend turned out to be an FBI agent, that's how it was done before,» the diplomat said. «But now they apparently decided to save their own resources, not to hold meetings, but just send letters. This is very funny, even tragic and terrible, but there is something comical, just human ignorance. Rudeness multiplied by ignorance,» the expert concluded. US in «diplomatic stress», State Duma says
