Russia expels diplomat from Montenegro in response to similar measure

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Moscow, 24 Mar Russia summoned Montenegro's Ambassador to Moscow Milorad Scepanovic on Thursday to inform him of the expulsion of an employee from his diplomatic mission in retaliation for a similar Podgorica measure, official sources reported. “On March 24, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Montenegro to the Russian Federation, Milorad Scepanovic, was summoned to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where a ministerial note on the declaration as 'persona non grata' was handed to an employee of the Montenegrin embassy in Moscow,” said the Foreign Ministry in a statement on its website. The note adds that the measure is a response to a similar decision by Montenegro, which adopted it on 4 March. The Montenegrin authorities accused the Russian diplomat of contravening the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. According to the press of the Balkan country, the expelled diplomat was, in fact, an agent of Russian intelligence. On Wednesday Poland announced the expulsion of 45 Russian diplomats from that country due to the Russian “special military operation” in Ukraine. mo/ads