Moskva The Russian media also notice Saturday’s departure of several dozen employees of the Russian embassy in Prague, who had to leave the Czechia due to the Vrbětice case. The RIA Novosti agency devotes several articles to the topic. In one of them, she published a video from the moment when a bus with dozens of Russians went to the airport in Prague. In another text he deals with the consequences of reducing the number of employees at the Czech Embassy in Moscow. “By the end of May, the Czech embassy will release 79 Russians. Their work – cooking, repairs, loading – will have to be done by diplomats, “writes the state agency.
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He refers to the experience of former American diplomat in Russia Richard Combs and the mass expulsion of diplomats in 1986, when the Soviet authorities ordered a reduction in staff at the US embassy by 200 people. “We are Americans. We’ll do everything ourselves, to hell with the Russians. We thought then, “according to Rio Novosti, Combs recalled in one of the interviews. According to him, the national pride helped the Americans at first. “But then it all started to get tiring,” he added, adding that all members of the diplomatic mission were involved in the maintenance of the embassy.
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In a relatively extensive text, RIA Novosti mentions various options for maintaining the operation of embassies, while sometimes, for example, outsourcing can be used. According to her, embassies can hire local staff or bring staff from their homeland. Russia prefers to bring in its own administrative and technical staff, the agency notes, with Western embassies in Moscow preferring to recruit staff to keep the mission technical from local Russians, as they are cheaper. According to her, the Czechia is no exception.
In conclusion, the agency claims that the Czechs will not have it easy now. “The diplomatic mission has lost drivers, cooks, gardeners … They are looking for compensation among Czech citizens who are in Russia for various reasons,” the agency writes, adding that the same is true for Americans as the Russian Foreign Ministry plans to ban the US diplomatic mission. administrative and technical staff from Russia or third countries.
“The Russian Foreign Ministry is trying to support its diplomats, looking for a place for them either at headquarters or to send them to another, more friendly country. But there are not enough vacancies for everyone, a long stay in the personnel reserve is possible, “also states RIA Novosti.
According to the TASS agency, 54 employees of the Russian diplomatic mission left with their families on Saturday, and a Rossiya plane will arrive for another group on Monday for another group. This will complete the process of bringing the number of employees of the Russian Embassy in Prague and the Czech diplomatic mission in Moscow to parity, added TASS, which today placed a report on the departure of diplomats at the top of its website. A number of Russian news servers also took over the agency news today.
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The Czech Republic decided to reduce the occupation of the Russian embassy in Prague in April after a diplomatic rift with Russia due to explosions in ammunition depots in Vrbětice in the Zlín region. In April, Prague decided to expel 18 employees of the embassy, which it described as officers of the Russian secret services. Moscow responded by expelling 20 diplomats or employees of the Czech embassy in the Russian capital. After that, the Czech Republic decided to expel other workers, whose departure Russia had time until the end of May. Moscow then announced that it was switching to “strict parity” in the number of embassy staff.
As for the Czech representation in Russia, by the end of May, 79 local forces will be fired there at the embassies in Moscow, the Czech House and the Czech Center Moscow. As of May 21, 71 employees have been fired. The Czechia also received an offer of assistance from a number of countries in connection with the running of the embassy, the whole matter is still being discussed.
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