MOSCOW, Jul 22 Making Slovenia one of the unfriendly countries is a response to «radical» actions Ljubljana is against the Russian Federation, said Russian Ambassador to Slovenia Timur Eyvazov. The Russian government had previously expanded the list of unfriendly foreign states, now it includes Greece, Denmark, Slovenia, Croatia and Slovakia. It was reported that Slovenia and Croatia, included in this list, will not be able to hire employees in their diplomatic missions and consular offices. «This is a response to the extremely unfriendly actions of the previous government of Slovenia, which were taken in April of this year, when the size of the Russian embassy in Ljubljana was reduced by almost 80%,» the diplomat said on the TV channel » Russia 24″. According to Eyvazov, as a result of such «radical and unjustified» actions, the number of the Russian representative office «was actually reduced to 8 people», and Ljubljana's steps also led to the closure of the Russian cultural center.
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