MOSCOW, Aug 5 The Foreign Ministry announced to Bulgarian Ambassador Atanas Krystin Moscow's response to restrictions on work Russian diplomatic institutions.” On August 5, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Bulgaria to Russia, Atanas Krystin, was invited to the Russian Foreign Ministry, where he was handed a note from the ministry declaring “persona non grata” and unacceptable 14 employees of the diplomatic mission and consular institutions of Bulgaria in Russia, “- Bulgarian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. 70 employees of Russian foreign institutions, who are credited by the Bulgarian authorities with working for the special services under the guise of diplomatic activities. In addition, the Consulate General in the city of Ruse has been temporarily closed. “We would like to emphasize that the responsibility for the consequences of these counterproductive steps lies entirely with the Bulgarian government, headed by Mr. (Kiril – Ed.) Petkov,” the ministry added. Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov previously called Petkov's actions “not an independent decision of the acting prime minister, who has an open and unambiguous pro-American position.” , 17:18Bulgaria has reduced to zero the possibility of the work of the Russian embassy, the Foreign Ministry said