An employee or of the Embassy of Russia in Chisinau was declared persona non grata on the territory of the Republic of Moldova and must leave the country. Russian Ambassador Oleg Vasnetsov was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to be informed about this, IPN reports.

The Ministry noted that the ambassador was told about the strong disagreement with the holding of the Russian presidential election on the territory of the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova, contrary to the position of the Moldovan authorities.

“In this connection, the Ambassador of the Russian Federation was handed over the note by which an employee of the Embassy was declared an undesirable person (non grata) on the territory of the Republic of Moldova and is to leave the country,” reads the Ministry’s press release.

For the Russian presidential election, the Moldovan authorities authorized the opening of only one polling station – inside the Russian Embassy in Chisinau. Despite this, the administration of the Transnistrian region allowed opening polling stations in Tiraspol, Bender, Rybnitsa, and Grigoriopol. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly condemned Russia’s unauthorized electoral activities on the sovereign territory of the Republic of Moldova, in the Administrative-Territorial Units on the left bank of the Nistru.