Germany, Sweden and Poland decided to expel Russian diplomats in response to a similar move by Moscow. This is reported by TASS with reference to the foreign affairs agencies of the countries.
Earlier in February, Russia announced the expulsion of foreign diplomats. The protest is connected with the participation of representatives of European departments in unauthorized actions on January 23. The diplomats have been declared persona non grata and will have to leave the country in the near future.
On February 2, the Simonovsky Court of Moscow replaced Alexey Navalny (the founder of the FBK, included by the Ministry of Justice in the register of organizations performing the functions of a foreign agent) a suspended sentence for a real one, sentencing him to 3.5 years in a general regime colony. 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 in the Yves Rocher case. The court hearing in his case was attended by employees of foreign diplomatic missions.