Moscow Expels Four Austrian Diplomats from Russia

PeopleDiplomats ♦ Published: February 16, 2023; 16:23 ♦ (Vindobona)

Russia has announced that it will expel four Austrian diplomats. In addition to the expulsion of the Austrian diplomats, the Austrian ambassador in Moscow, Werner Almhofer, was also cited to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This comes as a kind of retaliation after Vienna itself expelled four Russian diplomats a few weeks ago.

The staff of the Austrian Embassy in Moscow has been bottlenecked by the expulsion of the four Austrian diplomats. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / Shakko / CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)

After Austria expelled four Russian diplomats some time ago, creating its political thriller, as Vindobona.org reported, Russia now took countermeasures.

While the diplomats expelled by Austria performed "acts incompatible with their diplomatic status," according to the Foreign…