

Russia has not yet decided on a response to the United States after the embassy has announced changes in the procedure for issuing US visas.
"Cursor" reported today that Washington fulfilled its threat to impose restrictions on the issuance of visas to Russian citizens "in connection with the reduction in the staff of diplomatic missions", which Moscow demanded. INTERFAX quotes a response from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at a press conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Samekh Shukri: "As for our response, as I said, you need to study in detail the decisions that the Americans have announced today. We will see. I can only say one thing: we will not rip off evil on American citizens. "
"That is, if someone hoped that in this case a bad example would be contagious, then he miscalculated," Lavrov said, arguing with the statement made by the Federation Council. There the head of the Federation Council's commission for the protection of state sovereignty, the deputy head of the Federation Council's International Affairs Committee Andrei Klimov announced that Russia should respond symmetrically to the US decision to suspend the issuance of non-immigrant visas to Russian citizens.
"The first impression that the American authors of these decisions started another attempt to cause discontent of Russian citizens with the actions of the Russian authorities," Lavrov said. "This logic is known, it is the logic of those who organize color revolutions and this is the inertia of the Obama administration in its pure form," the minister said.