Representatives of the Embassy of Russia, reduced in the parity principles with the Czech side to the level of “seven diplomats + 25 technicrafts”, will leave Prague on May 29 and 31. Such dates called the representative of the Russian dipmission, reports RIA Novosti.
According to the diplomat, the reduced employees of the Russian embassy will leave the Czech Republic by the two groups – May 29 and 31. In turn, the spokesman for the airport of Prague Clara Divishkova reported, about the three declared special journeys on the route Prague-Moscow – one on May 29 and two to May 31. At the same time, she added that it does not have any information about the passengers of these flights.
The relations between Moscow and Prague were complicated after the Czech Republic accused Russian special services in involvement in the explosions in the warehouse of ammunition in Vrbetice. They occurred at the end of 2014, as a result, two people were killed. 18 diplomats sent from the country, whom Prague suspects in work at the special services. Moscow, in response, declared 20 employees of the Czech embassy. Later it became known that Russia and the Czech Republic equal the number of employees in the embassies.