This photo shows a view of the Russian Foreign Ministry headquarters in Moscow on April 29, 2021. (NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA / AFP)
MOSCOW – Russia expelled a second Estonian diplomat in less than a month on Tuesday, escalating an espionage row with Tallinn against the background of Moscow’s already strained relations with the European Union.
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Russia last month accused one of Estonia’s consuls of spying and expelled him, prompting Estonia to expel a Russian diplomat.
On Tuesday, Russia’s foreign ministry said in a statement it was expelling a Moscow-based Estonian diplomat whose name it did not disclose “based on the reciprocity principle.”
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It also warned Estonian authorities against “further complicating the situation that they have already aggravated to the extreme.”
