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The two diplomats were given 72 hours to leave Bulgaria, a country in line with European Union policy.
Hours earlier, Bulgarian prosecutors said they had been trying since 2016 to obtain classified information on the modernization plans of the Bulgarian army and the technical maintenance of military equipment.
To this end, the two Russian diplomats have established contacts with Bulgarian citizens who have information about Bulgaria’s military-industrial complex, and in some cases they have been promised and given financial incentives, the Bulgarian judiciary also notes, Agerpres announces. .
Russia’s image in European chancelleries is not exactly good.
The European Union has threatened Russia with sanctions, and Germany has not ruled out the possibility of including the Russian-German Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project in the event of the poisoning of Kremlin opponent Navalny.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said this week that the German government was using the Navalny case to “discredit” Russia on the international stage.
The Russian Foreign Ministry also warned that Berlin’s refusal to give Russia access to the German investigation would be considered a “serious and hostile challenge.”
Several opponents or opponents of the Kremlin have been poisoned in recent years. Russia has increasingly denied the accusations, while Western powers have indisputable proof.
The nerve agent Noviciok was already used against former Russian double spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia in 2018 in England. According to the British authorities, GRU, the intelligence service of the Russian army, is the main suspect. This case led to the establishment of Western sanctions against Russia.
Aleksei Navalny has established himself as one of the Kremlin’s main opponents in recent years, publishing investigations into the corruption of Russian elites and the entourage of President Vladimir Putin.
On the political stage, his organization, the Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK), favors local and regional elections to present or support candidates with the possibility of defeating those of the ruling United Russia party. This strategy met with some success in September 2019 during the local parliament elections in Moscow.
