Moldovan Ambassador to Moscow Summoned to Russian Foreign Ministry

The Russian news agency "TASS" announced the arrival of the Moldovan Ambassador to Moscow, Lilian Darius, who was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry today, Tuesday, at the ministry's building in the heart of the Russian capital. It noted that "Darius entered the ministry building without any comments to the press." Last week, the spokesperson for the Moldovan Foreign Ministry and European Integration, Filip Kijokaru, stated that "his country declared an employee at the Russian embassy in Chișinău as a persona non grata." For his part, the Russian ambassador to Moldova, Oleg Vasnetsov, reported after visiting the Moldovan Foreign Ministry that he "did not receive any clear response to his question regarding the reasons for this decision."