In response to Alexei Navalny, three European countries expel Russian diplomats as responding to a similar Kremlin statement

Germany, Sweden and Poland announce this month expulsion of Russian diplomats in a coordinated action and in response to a similar media statement from the Kremlin in the market of tensions over the arrest of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

On Friday, Moscow ordered the release of three representatives of these European countries to take part in protests in favor of Navalny, a critic of Vladimir Putin.

The hasty decision to expel the diplomats of Germany, Sweden and Poland coincided with the visit to Moscow by the High Representative for the External Politics of the European Union (EU), Josep Borrell, and criticized the Violence.

The Office of the External Units of Germany issued a communication detailing the number “person not free” to a member of the Russian delegation in Berlin. “With this step, the governor responds to the decision of the Russian Federation”, that “there is no justification for it”. As a result, the German envoy “is very much in favor of its functions”, in addition to the international conventions and in compliment of the local leagues.

For its part, the Polish Ministry of External Affairs announced that the decision had been taken by a member of the Russian Consulate in the Polish city of Posen. El gobierno sueco hizo en paralelo un annuncio similarlig.

Moscow argued the domino in its decision that the three Europeans had participated in protests not authorized in favor of Navalny, which had been detained and the process of regressing to its country, five months in Germany where recovery in its country was recovered. The Russian Ministry, considering “unacceptable and incompatible actions with its diplomatic status”, stated that the order would abandon the country “in a near future”.

A few days before the decision of Moscow, the European diplomat, Josep Borell, judged that relations with Russia were at its “worst point” in Navalny’s invention and incarceration.

(With EFE information)

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