Russia promised adequate answer when Russian diplomats were declared personae non gratae by Romania

Moscow will make adequate answer after Bucharest authorities declared the Russian military attache and his deputy personae non gratae, said an official of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry.   “Russia will give adequate answer,” said the official quoted by TASS on Wednesday. The Romanian Foreign Ministry declared the Russian miliatry attacje and his deputy personae non gratae on Wednesday for “activities which do not observe provisions of the Vienna Convention about diplomatic relations of 1961”. The Romanian Foreign Ministry summoned charge d'affaires Yelena Kopnina to inform her about that decision. “The Russian party considers this step unjustified and unfriendly and reserves the right to retaliate”, Russia's charge d'affaires in Romania Elena Kopnina, told TASS.   În turn, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova commented on the expulsion of the two Russian diplomats by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday, saying that Romania was transferring “problems from a sick head to a healthy one” in an attempt to find “any correlation between its internal political crisis” and Moscow.   She insisted that the Russian Federation “does not have the habit of interfering in other people’s affairs” and promised that Moscow would retaliate, according to the Russian state news agency TASS.   “As for Bucharest’s obsession with finding a ‘Russian trace’ in these completely internal, intra-Romanian political disputes: is this something new, is it any kind of novelty? No. We have already repeatedly rejected all these unfounded speculations and we state once again: Russia does not have the habit of interfering in other people’s affairs,” the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said.   “And there is no need to transfer the problems from the sick to the healthy. These are Romania’s problems, what is happening there. It is a crisis of the political system. (…) It is an absolute replacement of democratic institutions through unscrupulous manipulations. We have nothing to do with this,” Maria Zakharova further commented.   Instead of looking at the situation objectively and drawing the correct conclusions based on their own analyses, “the ruling circles in Romania continue to perseverely follow the Russophobic course of escalation,” Zakharova accused.   “This is highlighted once again by the unfounded decision of the Romanian authorities to declare the military attaché of the Russian Embassy in Bucharest and his assistant as undesirable persons on the territory of the country, a decision that was publicly announced on March 5,” she continued.   Zakharova reiterated Moscow’s position on Wednesday and said that this step will not go unanswered. “As you well understand, this sad step will not go without our reaction. Who did they do worse? Obviously, themselves,” the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman concluded, referring to the Romanian authorities.   The Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Wednesday the declaration of persona non grata on Romanian territory of the military, air and naval attaché of the Russian Federation in Bucharest, Victor Makovski, as well as his deputy, Evgeni Ignatiev