According to Slovak media estimates, this will reduce the embassy's staff by about half.
Slovak authorities have ordered the Russian embassy to cut staff by 35, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Wednesday, citing the inadmissible activity of another Russian diplomat.
The aim of the move is to “establish the maximum number of holders of diplomatic and service passports in this (Russian) mission,” spokesman Yura Tomaga was quoted as saying by Reuters .
Russia's state propaganda agencies reported that the Russian ambassador had been summoned to the Slovak Foreign Ministry, where he was informed that the mission's staff had been reduced. On March 14, Slovakia expelled three Russian embassy staff based on intelligence information.
“This step is an inevitable reaction to the fact that the Russian embassy continues to work contrary to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, Slovakia's interests and partnership with the Russian Federation,” Tomaga said.
It should be noted that several other European Union countries, including Belgium, the Netherlands and Ireland, sent dozens of Russian diplomats on Tuesday.
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