European Interest

Sweden: Five officials at the Russian Embassy expelled

Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0 Author: Holger.Ellgaard
Arvfurstens Palats, the seat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Stockholm.

On Tuesday, April 25, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Sweden summoned Russia’s Ambassador Viktor Tatarintsev to notify him that five officials at the Russian Embassy in Sweden have been asked to leave the country due to activities that are inconsistent with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.

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