Moscow responds to US fears about "espionage center in Serbia"

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Maria Zakharova has called "absurd" the statements made by US officials regarding the Russian-Serbian Humanitarian Center in Nis, southern Serbia.

According to the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, US diplomats have made "absolutely unthinkable, absurd, far-fetched accusations in the worst tradition of the Cold War," RIA Novosti is reporting.

"Allegedly, the center is practically a Russian spy nest in the Balkans, supposedly capable of endangering the American contingent in Kosovo," she said.

US diplomats should ask the opinion of the Balkan states and public organizations there about their appraisal of the RSHC before making such absurd statements, Zakharova said at a briefing.

She recalled that the center, established in 2012, was from the start conceived and implemented as a joint...