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The Russian Foreign Ministry demanded that the Israeli authorities immediately provide information on the grounds of arrest of a Russian citizen A.Yu.Burkova detained at the airport Ben-Gurion at the request of the United States, and admission to it the Russian consul .
«strongly condemn this another case of extraterritorial application of US law in respect of citizens of the Russian Federation. It is absolutely unacceptable practice already accepted chronic nature “, – the report says the Russian Foreign Ministry.
The Foreign Ministry stressed that the actions of the US authorities not only violate international law and the legitimate rights and interests of Russian citizens, but also complicate Russian-American relations.
«We hope that the Israeli authorities would not allow the extradition of A.Yu.Burkova in the United States, where he, like many other Russian citizens, certainly would expect politicized and biased” justice ” – said the Russian Foreign Ministry commissioner for human rights, democracy and the rule of law, Konstantin Dolgov.
Earlier this week, at the airport in Helsinki, Finland at the request of the United States was arrested another citizen of Russia Yury Yefremov. According to the “Novaya Gazeta” Efremov – Ministry of Internal Affairs, Colonel Retired. Sources of publications suggest that detention may be related to the visit to the exhibition of small arms in 2011 in the United States, which holds an annual National Fund Shooting Sports USA and which attracts hundreds of arms dealers from around the world.
The Russian Foreign Ministry expressed serious concern over the detention of Ephraim. Dolgov then noted that this is the fourth such incident that took place in the Finnish territory this year.
Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry urged Russian citizens in planning trips abroad to take into account the risk of claims against them by the US law enforcement agencies.
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