Senior diplomats from Washington and Moscow held a "tough, forthright" conversation concerning bilateral tensions. Senior diplomats from Washington and Moscow held a “tough, forthright” conversation concerning bilateral tensions, the State Department said Tuesday, including over Russian access to diplomatic compounds in the US.That spat was high on the agenda at Monday’s talks in Washington between Thomas Shannon, the US State Department’s No. 3, and Russia’s deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov.The Kremlin has demanded Washington restore diplomatic access to two compounds in the states of New York and Maryland, which the Obama administration restricted in December following initial suspicions of Russian …read more
Source: Pulse Nigeria
