Russia has raised the issue with the US of easing visa procedures for ordinary citizens, restoring direct flights, normalizing working conditions for diplomats and returning confiscated property.
This was announced by the new Russian ambassador to the US Alexander Darchiev upon his arrival in Washington.
„We are talking not only about easing visa procedures for employees of our diplomatic missions and ordinary citizens, about simplifying the travel regime in the host country for diplomats within the framework of their professional activities, but also about such difficult issues as the return to the Russian side of six confiscated real estate properties owned by the Russian Federation and the resumption of direct flights interrupted by Washington, he emphasized.