MOSCOW, March 12 (RIA Novosti) - The U.S. embassy Moscow said Monday it had no information regarding a Russian journalist seeking political asylum in America and was puzzled by the report published in the Sunday Times, the embassy's press service said.
On Sunday the British newspaper reported that a Russian journalist following, "a recent spate of murders and poisonings ..., is fleeing home this week for a new life abroad after being promised political asylum in America."
An embassy source said one needed to be in America to request political asylum and that U.S. mbassies abroad never granted political asylum. "The press report was a surprise, we cannot understand where it came from," he said.
An official at the press service said a stringer might have provided the Sunday Times with the information.
