Ministry of Foreign Affairs called a provocation expel two diplomats from Brussels.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation called gross provocation expel two Russian diplomats from postpredstva to NATO, RIA Novosti reported with reference to the comment and the press department of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
The Ministry announced a pretext under which the diplomats expelled from Brussels, "absolutely false" and pledged to make this conclusion. Earlier, NATO said that the diplomats working in the Russian intelligence.
Media reported that one of the two expelled diplomats working at the Russian mission to NATO, is the son of Russia's permanent representatives in the EU, Vladimir Chizhov. A source in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told Interfax that the work Chizhova NATO's decision is not affected and not affected.
In a statement the Foreign Ministry stated that the "outrageous act is fundamentally contrary to statements made by NATO's readiness to normalize relations with Russia." Recall that in March 2009, NATO announced the resumption of relations with Russia, suspended after the war in South Ossetia. April 29, the first since the August 2008 meeting of the Russia - NATO.Pri that in recent days, relations between Russia and the alliance increased due to the NATO exercises, which will be held in May in Georgia. According to Moscow, conducting military exercises will facilitate the preservation of the instability in regione.Ranee edition of The Financial Times reported that the removal of impacted spy scandal over revelations of Russia in Estonia, Hermann Simma. In this edition of the source pointed out that two Russian diplomats have not been directly linked to Simma, but the damage from its operations had forced NATO to take action on the officials of the Russian miss!
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In particular, CIMMYT had access to all information on the North Atlantic alliance, coming to Estonia. In February 2009, a spy was found guilty of treason and illegal transfer of official documents and sentenced to 12 ½ years in prison.
Representatives of NATO have confirmed information on the expulsion of two Russian diplomats, transmits AFP. Postpred Russia with the North Atlantic alliance Dmitry Rogozin has declined to comment on what happened, but promised to convene a press conference on April 30.