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February 05, 2021 Poland’s Consulate in St. Petersburg where the Russian government has expelled a Polish diplomat for supporting ‘illegal protests’ over jailing of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. Anatoly Maltsev/PAP/EPA
Poland’s Foreign Ministry has warned Russia it will take ‘appropriate steps’ following Moscow’s expulsion of a Polish diplomat for ‘illegal protests’ over the jailing of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
The unnamed diplomat is reported to have taken part in demonstrations last month in the city of St. Petersburg.
On Friday afternoon, the Foreign Ministry summoned Russia’s ambassador to Poland, Sergey Andreyev, demanding that Russia withdraw its decision.
Over 3,500 people have been detained during rallies across Russia in protest at high-level corruption and the arrest of opposition activist Alexei Navalny. Navalny was arrested on arrival at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport on January 17 as he flew in after recovering from being poisoned late last year by the novichok nerve agent.
Navalny is being held in Matrosskaya Tishina, Moscow’s most dreaded jail, charged with violating the parole terms of a suspended sentence for embezzlement. If convicted, he could be sentenced to up to ten years in prison. Navalny has called these charges trumped up, but his recent revelations about Putin’s lavish palace on the shores of the Black Sea won’t have endeared him to the Russian president. Said to feature a helipad, an underground ice palace, a church, a mudroom, a two-floor theatre, several vineyards and a tunnel to provide access to the beach, the home is reported to have cost US$1.35 billion (£988 million).