Moscow
Russia said on Monday it was expelling two Bulgarian diplomats in a tit-for-tat move after two Russians were ordered out of the EU country on accusations of spying for the military.
The foreign ministry said in a statement that Bulgarian ambassador Atanas Krystin was summoned to be informed that the two Moscow-based diplomats had been declared “personae non gratae”.
“This step is a tit-for-tat ‘retaliatory’ response to an unwarranted decision of the Bulgarian authorities to expel from the country in September two representatives of Russia’s trade mission in Sofia,” the ministry said.—AFP
