/ Go to the mediabankThe national flags of Russia and the USA are seen on the building of the US Embassy in Novinsky Boulevard in central Moscow, Russia. / Go to the mediabankInternationalIndiaAfricaDenis Bolotsky is a Sputnik correspondent and one of the Russian journalists who was supposed to accompany the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s delegation to the UN Security Council in New York.Speaking from outside the US Embassy in Moscow where he and his colleagues were supposed to receive US visas required to travel to New York City, the location of the UN headquarters, Bolotsky weighed in on the United States effectively barring him and other Russian journalists from doing their job.
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The UNSC session the journalists were supposed to cover comes as Russia presides over the UN Security Council.