A spokesman at the Foreign Ministry in Moscow said Tuesday that Michael McFaul will be summoned tomorrow for an explanation following the detention of a US agent identified as Ryan C. Fogle.
Russia’s Federal Security Services (FSB) said it has detained Fogle on Monday, while he was carrying “special technical equipment and written instructions for recruiting a Russian citizen.”
The CIA agent was held overnight and then handed over to US officials at the embassy.
The United States Embassy has declined immediate comment on the detention.
The development came days after President Vladimir Putin and US Secretary of State John Kerry said in Moscow that the relationship between the two countries was improving.
The relationship between Washington and Moscow has been tense, after both sides sanctioned the other’s citizens from entering their countries.
On April 13, Russia banned 18 US officials from traveling to the country. The measure came as a response to Washington’s move a day earlier to publish a list of Russian officials targeted for sanctions under the so-called “Magnitsky Act.”
The act was passed on December 6, 2012, to enforce financial sanctions and visa bans against Russian officials suspected of ties to the death of Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, who died in jail in 2009.
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