Russia asks USA to clear up its position on tunnel under Russia embassy

The Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday summoned the U.S. charge d'affaires and presented him with an official request that the State Department make its position clear on U.S. media reports of a secret tunnel having been dug under the Russian Embassy in Washington in early 1980s. "If these reports prove true, this will be a flagrant case of the violation of generally-recognised standards of international law concerning foreign diplomatic missions," says a Ministry statement cited by Interfax on Monday.