“Next time you are going to use fake letters — send them to us. We’ll be happy to correct the mistakes,” the U.S. embassy in Moscow tweeted at the newspaper Izvestia.
One of Russia's major newspapers published an article on Wednesday alleging that that the U.S. had put a controversial Russian LGBT activist up to claiming that top government officials are gay.
Controversial LGBT activist Nikolai Alekseyev is assaulted during a 2013 rally.
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"LGBT-activists are being used to discredit Russian public servants," reads the headline on the website of Izvestia.
"By the order of US Department of State, most effective members of Russian government and parliament are being accused of being of non-traditional sexual orientation," the article said in bold.
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The report claimed that Nikolai Alekseyev — an activist who other LGBT rights supporters have at times said was working with the Kremlin to discredit the movement — was ordered by U.S. officials to claim top officials are gay.
The article said Alekseyev named first deputy of presidential administration Vyacheslav Volodin, head of Sberbank German Gref, and head of the Sheremetyevo airport, Mikhail Vasilenko, as gay.
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"For now your main target will be first deputy of government," the article claims a U.S. official wrote. ""However, your main line of work, as we see it, will be to provoke [the deputy] to overly emotional reaction to [mentions] of the LGBT-community in Russia."
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