Instead of the Russian flag, the Estonian blue-black-white flag now flies over the residence of the Russian ambassador in Tallinn. writes about it MISTAKE. It was also reported that the Russian coat of arms disappeared from the doors of the residence.
Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu said on March 1 that the Russian Embassy terminated the rental agreement and accordingly it was returned to the landlord.
“It is no longer an embassy residence. “Since the ambassador was not here, the Russian embassy did not consider it necessary to leave the building,” Reinsalu said.
The minister also said that eight diplomats and 15 people remain in the Russian embassy “sent from Russia to carry out non-diplomatic missions”. He referred to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, on the basis that, from 1 February, Estonia switched to the principle of equality in the number of diplomatic missions with Russia and for an indefinite period.
“Right now and in the foreseeable future, in my estimation, there is absolutely no reason to rethink this,” Reinsalu said.
The embassy complex in Tallinn’s Old Town continues to be used by the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Estonia.
January 23 at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported about the decrease in the level of diplomatic relations with Estonia in connection with the hostile actions of the authorities of this country in relation to the Russian Federation, in particular, due to the reduction in the size of the Russian embassy in Tallinn. The Russian ambassador to Estonia left the country on 7 November.