Officials from USAID and the US government are refusing to comment about the upcoming closure of the USAID-funded Business Support Center in St Petersburg.
The center's 14 employees received notifications at the end of March that their last day of work will be May 31.
An official from the USAID headquarters in Washington refused to comment on why the St Petersburg business center was chosen to be shut instead of one of the other eight offices, saying it was up to USAID's Moscow office to decide the organization's affairs in Russia.
Robert May, the commercial officer from the US Consulate in St Petersburg, also referred queries to the USAID Moscow office.
But John Beed, spokesman for the USAID Moscow office, refused to comment, referring any questions to Tom Rogers, an American Embassy spokesman.
Mr Beed did say that Deloitte & Touche was preparing a press release about the situation, to be distributed this week.
But Alexander Yelistratov, Deloitte & Touche's Moscow office press relations officer, said he was not aware that he was supposed to prepare any information for the press.
In addition, he said the two entities have no connections with each other.
According to St Petersburg's Deloitte & Touche office, the company is one of the companies contracted by USAID to carry out projects.
Marina Lebedeva, director of USAID's St Petersburg Business Support Center, said USAID's Moscow office told her the St Petersburg office would be closed due to a lack of funding from the US government.
Ms Lebedeva said that the projects her center was conducting "were not the cheapest ones, but at no point were we told to cut our expenses down."
She refused to elaborate on the size of funds they were obtaining from the US government, saying she believed it was more reasonable to cut down the expenses of all the USAID bodies, but to keep them operating, then to shut some of them.
In addition to the St Petersburg office, USAID's Vladivostok office will also be closed. Other offices in Tomsk, Novosibirsk, Smolensk, Zelenograd and Voronezh will remain open.