The Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared personas non grata of staff of Embassies of Netherlands and Belgium

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation declared personas non grata of 14 employees of Embassy of Netherlands in Moscow, one employee of Consulate General of the country in Saint Petersburg, and also diplomats of Ministry foreign affairs of Kingdom Belgium, the department press service reports. In the message it is said that the ambassador of Netherlands to Russian Federation Khilles Arnaud Beskhoor Plukh was called in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where to it expressed a protest in connection with expulsion of 18 Russian diplomats. In qualities of a countermeasure Russian Federation sends 15 Netherlands employees of diplomatic service. "To them Russian Federation in two weeks is offered to leave the territory" — is underlined in the statement. In addition in Russian...