Sweden has reserved the right to take action in response to the expulsion of its diplomat by Russia. The Swedish Foreign Ministry told Lente.ru about this.
The Foreign Ministry said that they had notified the Russian side that they considered its decision “completely unfounded.” The ministry also denied Russian claims that the diplomat took part in an unsanctioned protest. “The Ministry regrets the actions of Russia and reserves the right to take appropriate retaliatory measures,” the Swedish Foreign Ministry stressed.
Earlier, on February 5, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced the expulsion of three foreign diplomats for participating in unauthorized rallies in support of Alexei Navalny.
On February 2, the Simonovsky Court of Moscow replaced Alexei Navalny’s suspended sentence with a real one, sentencing him to 3.5 years in a general regime colony. However, he will spend two years and eight months in prison – he was credited with the year of house arrest he was under during the preliminary investigation of the Yves Rocher case.