MOSCOW, Dec 14 unacceptable to the US request, Russia will respond to the actions of Washington and Tallinn, Deputy Foreign Minister Yevgeny Ivanov said.
Earlier, court materials were made public, from which it follows that the United States is seeking the extradition from Estonia of Russian citizen Vadim Konoshchenko, who was detained there, who was considered a member of Russian intelligence without providing evidence.
«We will not tolerate this, this is not the first time this has happened, this is an unacceptable practice — the detention of our citizens abroad, and every time we will respond to this,» Ivanov said.
He stressed that the Russian Embassy in Estonia would request consular access to the detainee. «Today they announced, I think that the embassy will inform, they received a notification. They should request a meeting with a Russian citizen, find out all the circumstances, so, of course, we will work,» Ivanov added. He explained that the Russian side «so far has no information, except for some statements, so far no papers have been seen.» Russia, is an active member of the FSB. Alexei Braiman, who has a permanent residence permit in the country, and American citizen Vadim Yermolenko have been arrested in the United States. The US authorities assume that the remaining four defendants in the case are in Russia — Evgeny Grinin, Alexei Ippolitov, Boris Livshits and Svetlana Skvortsova.