MOSCOW, December 8 (RAPSI) - The US continues to systematically violate rights of Russian citizens, according to the statement made on Monday by Konstantin Dolgov, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s envoy for human rights, quoted by TASS.

Dolgov said that the US were practically "hunting" Russian citizens, that from the US point of view present a threat to the national security. They do that without informing Russia of any prosecution planned or otherwise, Dolgov added.

Dolgov also said that the US are often pressuring sovereign states into complying with the unjust prosecution of Russian citizens. He pointed to the recent convictions and arrests oof Dmitry Ustinov and Roman Seleznev, detained in third countries upon US request.

Moscow-born Roman Seleznev, 30, the son of Liberal Democratic Party State Duma lawmaker Valery Seleznev, has been charged with hacking into retail cash register systems to install malicious software to steal credit card numbers, and with operating servers and international carding forum websites to facilitate the theft and sale of stolen credit card data. He was arrested in the Maldive Islands and taken to Guam, an unincorporated US territory in the western Pacific.

Another Russian national, Dmitry Ustinov, 53, has been sentenced in US to 18 months in prison for conspiracy to illegally export high-tech military night vision equipment in October.

Russian businessman Viktor Bout is serving a 25 year sentence in Illinois. He was convicted in November 2011 of conspiracy to murder US nationals, including military officers and employees, and of selling millions of dollars’ worth of weapons, including hundreds of portable surface-to-air missiles and over 20,000 AK-47s, to the Colombian rebel group FARC.