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U.S. Embassy in Moscow may completely stop working in 2022

An American official said that the US Embassy in Moscow could stop performing most of its functions as early as next year. This will not happen only if Russia and the United States can reach an agreement to increase the number of visas for diplomats. The edition told in more detail Voice of America.

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At the same time, quite recently, the United States stopped issuing visas in Moscow. Now Russian citizens are considered a "homeless nation" and are forced to apply to the US Embassy in Warsaw.

“We need to make progress soon,” said a State Department official. "We will not face the situation next month, but sometime next year, when it will be difficult for us to do anything other than look after the embassy itself."

“We will do everything to keep the embassy open,” he said, and noted that other functions of the embassy, ​​such as sending diplomatic mails, would be difficult without additional personnel.

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The embassy now lacks staff to even perform basic functions such as opening and closing embassy gates, securing phone calls and servicing elevators.

Since August 1, the embassy has been banned from hiring Russians or third-country nationals, which has led to the firing of more than 200 mission officers from among local residents throughout Russia.

The United States complains about non-compliance with the principle of reciprocity in this regard: Moscow counts local employees in the total number of American diplomats, while Washington counts only Russian citizens in similar calculations.

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About 120 people work in American missions in Russia, which is much less than in 2017 (1200), while Russian missions in the United States have about 230 people, not counting the personnel of the Russian mission to the UN in New York.

"They have a much larger presence here in the US than we do in Russia," said a State Department official.

U.S.-Russian relations have deteriorated in many ways, including accusations of Moscow meddling in U.S. elections, although the presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin agreed at the summit in Geneva work towards a more stable relationship in June.

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