New Delhi, June 15 -- MOSCOW - The invitation arrived without conditions. When the United States assumed the G20 presidency in December 2025, Russia sent a delegation to Washington for the opening sherpa meeting, and its representatives attended without incident. Six months later, Moscow says the welcome has curdled into something harder to name - a pattern of blocked visas, denied accreditations, and quiet obstruction that the Russian Foreign Ministry is now calling out in public.

Marat Berdyev, Russia's ambassador-at-large for G20 and APEC affairs, gave an interview to RIA Novosti published on June 15 in which he described what he characterized as a systematic failure by the United States to honor its obligations as the forum's presidi...