(ANSA-AFP) - BELGRADE, DEC 20 - Russia on Monday expelled two
German diplomats in response to a spat with Berlin over a German
court's ruling that Moscow had ordered the 2019 assassination of
an ex-Chechen commander in a Berlin park. "The German ambassador
was informed that two diplomatic employees of the German embassy
in Russia were declared 'persona non grata' as a symmetrical
response," Russia's foreign ministry said in a statement. It did
not say when the German diplomats needed to leave Russia. The
ministry added that it had registered a "strong protest" with
the German envoy over Berlin's expulsion of two Russian
diplomats last week. Last week, judges in Berlin sentenced
Russian national Vadim Krasikov, alias Vadim Sokolov, to life in
jail after convicting him of gunning down Georgian national
Tornike Kavtarashvili, 40, in a Berlin park in 201 (ANSA-AFP).
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