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Russia said on December 20 that it would expel two German diplomats from Moscow in retaliation for a similar decision by Berlin.
German authorities ousted two diplomats days ago after a court in Berlin convicted a Russian man of fatal gunshots to a former Chechen militant in 2019 in Berlin, under Moscow orders.
“The German ambassador has been informed of the declaration of two diplomats of the German Embassy in Russia as ‘undesirable persons’ in accordance with the decision of the German Government,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on December 20.
The announcement did not mention when German diplomats were to leave Russia.
In its December 15 ruling, a Berlin court said the data showed that Moscow had played a role in the murder of Tornike Kavtarashvili in a park in Berlin.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has said that Russia’s involvement in the assassination was a “serious violation of German law and the sovereignty of the Federal Republic of Germany.”
The German Foreign Ministry said after the Russian decision on deportations that it was not surprised and that this decision increases tensions in bilateral relations./ REL
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