July 8, 2014
..."We consider (click here) this as the latest unfriendly move from Washington," Russia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement demanding "coherent explanations about the incident."
The ministry recalled two previous incidents involving wanted Russian businessmen Viktor Bout and Konstantin Yaroshenko in observing that the Seleznev detention abroad was "not the first time that the U.S. government, ignoring a bilateral agreement on mutual legal cooperation regarding criminal issues, has conducted a literal kidnapping of a Russian citizen."...
Russia has been shutting down outside financial interests and seeking to create Russia credit cards based in rubles. So, this trafficking issue is not all that surprising. It is coincidental that Mr. Snowden's temporary asylum is also coming to an end.
