From the article: >Tipping off television crews to meetings between a diplomat and an activist, allowing the crews to burst in on the “secret” meeting and gril

From the article: >Tipping off television crews to meetings between a diplomat and an activist, allowing the crews to burst in on the “secret” meeting and grill the parties on tape. How is this happening if the meeting is taking place at an embassy? The premises of embassies are inviolable under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. So it's a failure on the part of the embassy security for reporters to burst in, but it's also a violation of a very basic diplomatic norm on the part of the Russians to let this sort of thing go unpunished.