Russia has added Norway to its list of countries “committing unfriendly actions directed against Russian diplomatic and consular missions abroad,” the Russian government’s press service announced Thursday.
The list of countries committing “unfriendly actions” sets restrictions on embassies, consulates, and representative offices hiring people who are residing in Russian territory.
The decree can amount to a complete ban — or it can assign a specific number of Russian residents those countries can hire.
According to the new decree, Norway is assigned a limit of 27 employees.
“We adopted the Russian presidential decree ‘On the application of measures against the unfriendly actions of foreign states’,” reads the government statement.
The list is not final, and “taking into account the ongoing hostile actions of foreign states directed against Russian missions abroad, may be expanded,” the government statement added.
Other states on the countries committing “unfriendly actions” list include: The United States, the Czech Republic, Greece, Denmark, Slovenia, Croatia and Slovakia.
In addition to this list of countries committing “unfriendly actions,” Russia also has another list, which is a list of “unfriendly countries.”
Some context: Norway was included in the list of “unfriendly countries” back in March 2022, shortly after the start of the war in Ukraine — but has now been added to the “unfriendly actions” list.
The “unfriendly countries” list also includes Australia, Albania, Andorra, the United States, the United Kingdom, Iceland, Canada, Liechtenstein, Micronesia, Monaco, New Zealand, Norway, the Republic of Korea, San Marino, North Macedonia, Singapore, Taiwan, Ukraine, Montenegro, Switzerland and Japan.
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