Romania expels Russian diplomat amid wave of expulsions
April 26, 2021
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Bucharest (AP) — Romania said on Monday it has expelled a Russian embassy official, in the latest of a wave of expulsions of Russian diplomats from European countries and counter-expulsions from Moscow.
Romania’s foreign ministry said the "activities and actions" of Alexey Grishaev, a deputy military attaché at the Russian Embassy in Bucharest “contravene the provisions of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations since 1961.”
Romanian authorities did not provide further details.
Russia's ambassador to Romania, Valery Kuzmin, told the Russian news agency Tass that the Romanian decision “is undeniably an unfriendly one,” and added that Moscow "reserves the right to take relevant measures in response.”