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Foreign Ministry outraged by Russian citizen's detention by US secret service in Maldives

July 5, Russian citizen Roman Seleznyov was detained in the airport of Male, Maldives, forced by agents of American secret service into a private jet and brought to Guam Island
Russian Foreign Ministry building in Moscow ITAR-TASS/Gennady Khamelyanin
Russian Foreign Ministry building in Moscow
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MOSCOW, July 8. /ITAR-TASS/. Russia considers the detention of the Russian citizen Roman Seleznyov by US secret services as Washington's unfriendly step, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.

“As it became known, July 5, Russian citizen Roman Seleznyov was detained in the international airport of the city of Male, the capital of Maldives,” the ministry recalled. “On the same day, he was forced by agents of American secret service into a private jet and delivered to Guam Island. This fact has been already confirmed by the US Department of Homeland Security.”

“We consider the incident as another Washington’s unfriendly step,” the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stressed.