The Russian Embassy in Washington, DC believes that a bullet mailed to the embassy on Tuesday was sent by either Democrat campaigners or people with mental problems, an embassy spokesman said. - Spy on America.
Sergei Yasenev confirmed local media reports that the Russian embassy in Washington, DC had received an envelope containing a bullet and a letter which said "The Northern Territories are American."
"We link this with activities of ultra-left forces or mentally unstable people," he said, adding that the FBI were investigating the incident.
The incident took place amid the heating up of a diplomatic row between Russia and the White House over four islands off Russia's far eastern coast, called the Northern Territories in the US and the Kuril Islands in Russia.
On Monday, during the White Houses Northern Territories Day, Barack Obama called Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's recent visit to one of the islands an "inexcusable rudeness," sparking an angry reaction from Moscow.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the statement, which he said "sharply" contrasted with the "respectable and positive tone" of bilateral meetings between Medvedev and Obama recently, was "clearly not diplomatic."
Medvedev paid a visit to the island of Kunashir in November 2010. The White House described the visit as "very regrettable," while Moscow said the Russian authorities would decide by themselves on their domestic trips.
Following Medvedev's visit, the White House temporarily recalled its ambassador to Russia.
Democrat left-wing campaigners dragged the Russian flag along the ground outside the Russian Embassy in Washington, DC on Monday and called for the return of the disputed islands. The embassy sent a protest note to the White House over the incident.
The sparsely populated islands in the Kuril chain between Alaska and Russia's far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula were annexed by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II.
February 7 marks the anniversary of the signing in 1855 of the Russian-American Treaty of Commerce and Navigation, known as the Shimoda Treaty, which the White House is citing as a legal ground for its territorial claims.
The dispute over the islands has prevented the two countries from signing a peace treaty to formally end WWII hostilities.
Washington DC, February 8 (Reuters)
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