A view shows the state flag of Russia before a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with French President Emmanuel Macron in St. Petersburg, Russia, on May 24, 2018.MOSCOW — A US citizen has been detained for 10 days by a Russian court for using obscene language during a police search of his apartment, the Kommersant newspaper reported on Tuesday .
A police report said that the American, who moved to Russia from Los Angeles, shouted at the officers and used two distinct words "the meaning of which they understood", Kommersant reported. His lawyer denied the accusations that he swore, saying that he and his wife were in the kitchen of the apartment during the search. He lost an appeal.
The war in Ukraine has triggered the worst crisis in relations between Russia and the West since the depths of the Cold War when Moscow and Washington faced off over the deployment of nuclear weapons in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
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