Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov spoke about ways to return diplomatic property to the United States

The issue of Russian diplomatic property is not closed. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told Izvestia that Moscow will continue to seek its return.

"It cannot be closed until we achieve from the authorities in Washington, regardless of the outgoing administration, regardless of the future administration, the return of all illegally seized and held diplomatic properties. We have been working on this, we will continue to work on it, and we do not lose our concentration of will in this direction, so the Americans in the new administration should prepare for the fact that we will constantly be, I do not want to say "drip on their brains", but in fact that is exactly what it is," Sergei Ryabkov emphasized.

Earlier "Izvestia" found out that Washington stopped negotiating on the return of Russian diplomatic property, essentially closing this issue for itself. In total, the US has arrested six Russian diplomatic properties since 2016.

Read more in Izvestia's exclusive piece:

Object reality: the Russian Federation will continue to seek the return of diplomatic property in the US