MOSCOW. Jan 18 (Interfax) - Russia is expelling two employees of the embassy of the Netherlands in Moscow from the country as a tit-for-tat measure, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
"Joost Reintjes, charge d'affaires a.i. of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Russian Federation, was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry on January 18. A strong protest was declared to him due to the unfounded declaration as personae non gratae in December 2020 of two diplomats from the Russian Embassy in the Netherlands allegedly for activities 'incompatible with their diplomatic status'," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday.
"The official with the Embassy of the Netherlands was told that the Russian side had used the principle of reciprocity and had made the decision to expel from the Russian Federation two diplomats from the Embassy of the Netherlands in Moscow. They will need to leave the territory of the Russian Federation within two weeks," the ministry said.