Russia expelled ten Norwegian diplomats from the embassy in Moscow on April 26, declaring them persona non grata, after Oslo had earlier accused 15 Russian officials of espionage, and ordered them to leave Norway on April 13. The Russian Foreign Ministry said it summoned Norwegian envoy Robert Kvile on Wednesday to inform him of the decision, and that it “strongly protested” Norway’s move to expel Russian Embassy staffers earlier this month, according to RT.
“This hostile step further aggravated the situation in bilateral relations, which are already at a critically low level,” the ministry said in a statement, adding that Kvile was “handed a note declaring 10 representatives of the Norwegian Embassy in Moscow and the Office of the Defense Attache as... ‘persona non grata.’”
