"The State Department strongly refuses to discuss the return of six de facto confiscated items of diplomatic property, privately owned by the Russian Federation," the diplomat said MOSCOW, November 19. /TASS/. The United States refuses to discuss resuming direct air service with Russia, Russian Ambassador to Washington Alexander Darchiev stated in an interview with Kommersant . "The State Department strongly refuses to discuss the return of six de facto confiscated items of diplomatic property,