A billboard proclaiming Russia to be a peaceful country appeared across from the United States Embassy in Moscow on Tuesday, an apparent dig by Russias Federal Security Service (FSB) aimed at Washington as Americans celebrated their Independence Day.Welcome to our peaceful country, read the billboard in the colors of the Russian flag, set against the backdrop of the Kremlin and St.
Basils Cathedral.With compliments of the house, FSB, it continued.The security agencys official emblem could be seen in the billboard's bottom-right corner.The independent Sota news outlet first drew attention to the billboard, which it said was located on a street Russian authorities last yearrenamed 1 Donetsk Peoples Republic Square in honor of the Moscow-backed separatist territory in eastern Ukraine.Moscows state-funded daily Vechernyaya Moskvanoted that the billboards caption was identical to one displayed near the United States Embassy in January.Vechernyaya Moskvareported at the time that the FSB billboard had appeared in response to online FBI ads that sought to recruit Russian citizens to spy on Moscow.