Claim not to have received any complaint

Maria Sakharovah, spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, laughed when asked about the reasons why Iceland closed its embassy in Moscow in 2023.

Thordis Kolbrún Reykfjörður Gylfadóttir, former Foreign Minister, announced in the days that the Icelandic embassy staff had been threatened in various ways, but the British newspaper Daily Express first discussed the threatening behavior.

Thorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir, current Foreign Minister, then confirmed in a conversation with the State Radio One of the reasons the embassy was closed was that the privacy of its staff was grossly violated.

Then Thorgerður Katrín said that the Russian government had been notified of the matter.

In Prövdu's news that Sakhalova was asked at his weekly press conference in these words of Thorgerd Katrina that Russia had not guaranteed the security of the Icelandic staff. « Who said it? The Foreign Minister of Iceland? Is she maybe called Baerbock-2? » asked Sakhalo laughing laughing, making little of the Foreign Minister's explanations.

She referred to Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock there, but it is safe to say that she is not highly written with the Kremlin.

Sakhalovah accused Thorgerda of lies and said that the Icelandic government had decided to close its embassy and reduce its Russian activities in Reykjavik to show solidarity with the Western powers. She also said that no one in Iceland seems to have been concerned about the damage that this might cause to cause relations between Iceland and Russia.

Sakhalova also said that Russia had not received any complaints from the Icelandic government about threats or threats against the Icelandic embassy or its staff.

She said that Russia had complained to the Icelandic Foreign Ministry for vandalism at the Russian embassy in Reykjavik in 2022 but had been answered with « disgrace ». Sakharovah said that Icelanders had failed to fulfill their duties under the Embassy Convention.

« Asked the Government of Iceland and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of this country and asked for some kind of document they had sent to Russia because of the alleged threat to their embassy and asked them to provide more security measures, » said Sakhalovah.