Ireland Russian Embassy

Move follows Ireland's expulsion of four senior Russians officials from its embassy in Dublin last week.

Last week Taoiseach Micheál Martin said the four Russian officials were asked to leave because “their activities are not in accordance with the international standards of diplomatic behaviour”. The foreign ministry also demanded the Government “immediately remove the obstacles to the work of the Russian embassy in Dublin and ensure normal conditions for the functioning of our diplomatic mission”, without specifying what this referred to. “This decision to reduce the size of our relatively small embassy in Moscow will significantly reduce our ability to provide services to our citizens in Russia and to maintain diplomatic channels of communication with the Russian Federation.”

Ireland's ambassador to Russia was summoned to Moscow's foreign ministry on Thursday and told that two diplomats have been asked to leave the country, ...

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It comes after Ireland last month expelled four Russian diplomats based at the country's Orwell Road embassy in Dublin who were suspected of spying. In a ...

The Irish Government has resisted Opposition calls to expel other Russian diplomats including ambassador Yuriy Filatov, who directly before the war insisted that no invasion was imminent. “On April 7 at @MID_RF the Ambassador of Ireland in Moscow B. McElduff was summoned. “There is no justification for the taking of this measure. The Russian Foreign Ministry went on to say that the ambassador was informed of “our respective retaliatory measures against a number of diplomats working at the Irish Embassy in Moscow”. In a statement, the Russian Foreign Ministry said strong protest was expressed in connection with “the unfriendly and motiveless steps in March by the Irish authorities, who demanded the departure of four employees of the Russian Embassy in Dublin”. “The Ambassador of Ireland to the Russian Federation was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Moscow this afternoon and informed that two diplomats from our Embassy in Moscow have been asked to leave,” he said.

TWO IRISH DIPLOMATS have been asked to leave Russia by the Russian Foreign Ministry. The Department of Foreign Affairs has said that the Irish ambassador to the ...

After the expulsion of the embassy staff, the Russian Embassy in Ireland said that the decision would “not go unanswered”. In a statement this evening, the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Russia said that the move was in response to the “unfriendly and groundless steps” taken by Ireland to expel Russian embassy staff. The Department of Foreign Affairs has said that the Irish ambassador to the Russian Federation, Ambassador Brian McAlduff, was summoned to the Moscow Foreign Ministry earlier today.

Taoiseach Michael Martin said the reason for their expulsion from Ireland came in light of security advice received by the Government. However, Foreign Affairs ...

In a statement released, he said: "The Ambassador of Ireland to the Russian Federation was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Moscow this afternoon and informed that two diplomats from our Embassy in Moscow have been asked to leave. The Ambassador of Ireland to the Russian Federation was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Moscow on Thursday and was informed of the decision to expel two officials. Two diplomats based in the Irish Embassy in Moscow have been asked to leave the country, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs.

The Russian Embassy in Dublin has said Moscow is "determined" to respond to any "hostile steps" by Ireland following the expulsion of four of its diplomats ...

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In a statement, the Russian embassy in Dublin said Moscow would respond “proportionally to any hostile steps” from the Government, which it said had been ...

“We want to help in any way we can. And I think it is not a question of if they win the war, it is when they will win. We are not a strong military country, so we want to play to our strengths where we can be most effective in terms of our contribution. For now we want to maintain our strong unity of purpose.” We are in this situation with Ukraine and we all have to help Ukraine to win the war. The two people concerned are diplomats, engaged in nothing other than diplomatic activities.