translated from Spanish: Spying revives cold war; Russia arrests U.S.

the Russian service of national security (FSB) reported the arrest of a suspect U.S. citizen of committing espionage in Moscow, also opened a criminal case against her. December 28 the FSB detained in Moscow to an American citizen, Paul Whelan, while conducting espionage activities”, according to the official statement. The American citizen was identified as Paul Whelan and reported to the Washington Embassy in the Russian capital.

Pixabay. According to the law of Moscow, a conviction for espionage can mean 10 to 20 years in prison. In a brief statement, the Department of Washington State explained that he was trying to contact with its citizen. The Vienna Convention requires Russia to give consular access to the detainee. We request and hope to the Russian authorities to approve it,”said U.S. diplomatic dependence. This detention occurs in a context in which Western countries involve Russia in several espionage scandals. The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, accused Western countries of resorting to these polemics to undermine the weight of the country in the international political chess-board. This is related to the affirmation of Russian power”, Putin said during his annual press conference. Moscow denounced attempts to interfere in the presidential election of last March at which Putin was re-elected. In mid-December, in his press conference annual Putin denied that Moscow would retaliate against us over the arrest of Russian citizens under accusations of espionage.
On this issue, Putin said that “you have to be very careful”, denied that Russia will “arrest innocent people just to redeem for someone”.

In addition, he criticized the process opened in Washington against the Russian citizen Maria Butina for conspiring against the State and denied his confession that he worked for the Kremlin.

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