Russian Embassy in the USA lost 27 employees to Monday – they should have learn in fulfillment of Washington’s demand for restricting the stay of employees of Russian dipmissions in America in three years. The US State Department informed BBC that they are not going to refuse from a three-year limit.
The fact that Russia will follow the US prescription, on Friday, the Russian ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov said on Friday: “In September last year, the Americans handed us a list of 55 employees of Russian bilateral dipms, which in 2022 prescribed to leave the United States in two stages. 27 employees must leave the country by January 30, another 28 – by June 30 of this year. “
As BBC Antonov told, 27 employees of the Russian diplomacy from the list, which Americans were transferred back in September, left the United States. “After this expulsion, 184 employees remain in the embassy, including diplomats and administrative and technical staff,” Antonov explained.
The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Maria Zakharova declared on December 1 that by January 31, Russia will have to leave the US Embassy, which are in Moscow for more than three years. She also noted that if the United States does not give up a three-year restriction and will not compromise, the next group of American diplomans will have to leave Russia until July 1, 2022.
In the State Department did not answer the question of BBS, how many employees work in the American mission in Russia now and how many will remain after January 31.