The Russian Foreign Ministry intends to deal with the “English gardeners” of Russian citizenship
The Russian Foreign Ministry intends to completely deprive the diplomatic mission of unfriendly employer functions and start with the British embassy in Moscow and the consulate in Yekaterinburg.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced this today, speaking in the State Duma, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The topic of hiring administrative and technical personnel by foreign embassies was raised by LDPR deputy Andrei Lugovoi. He recalled that during the USSR there was a practice of hiring such personnel through the Main Production and Commercial Directorate for Servicing the Diplomatic Corps (GlavUpDK) under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“After the collapse of the USSR, unfortunately, unfriendly countries, especially the Anglo-Saxons and Britons, began to hire gardeners, cooks, drivers - people performing specific tasks. Including communicating with our citizens on a confidential basis. It seems to me that the time has come to put these guys in their place and force them to accept people for these types of positions through our structures,” Lugovoi said.
Lavrov admitted that there was a problem, and it worsened after the start of the CWO, “when the West began expelling our employees in the hundreds, hoping to preserve their ability to continue working in Russia at the expense of hired citizens.”
“The decision has already been made to abolish this practice. Citizens hired locally now count toward overall quotas as we restore parity in diplomatic mission numbers. In some Western countries, the number of such personnel was in the hundreds, 300-400 people each. This practice has now been stopped. Those who were interested in this were forced to significantly reduce the number of such contracts,” Lavrov said.
At the same time, he noted that the current legislation still allows foreign diplomatic missions to enter into contracts on labor services with legal entities, and “this does not make it possible to understand which gardener or cook will do what.”
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