The RCC announced on Thursday that it was temporarily suspending all activities due to an FBI probe into alleged violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) that targeted members of the Russian community in the US. FARA is a US law passed in 1938 requiring anyone representing the interests of foreign powers in a political or quasi-political capacity to disclose their relationship with the foreign government and information about related activities and finances.
"We are outraged by the hostile actions of the United States against our compatriots taken under the pretext of suspicion over the work in the United States without registration as foreign agents," the embassy said in a statement posted on Facebook.
The embassy regards the US actions as unfriendly toward Russia.
"Our position on the abovementioned incidents has been repeatedly communicated to the American authorities," the embassy stressed. "However, officials continue to ignore our calls to guarantee for the community basic rights which are stipulated, among other things, by the First Amendment to the US Constitution. In fact, we are talking about a gross violation of personal freedoms in a country that claims to be titled a 'stronghold of democracy'"
"We demand that the persecution of the Russian diaspora representatives be immediately stopped," the statement added.