At the end of September, the FSB detained Consul Motoki Tatsunori for data transfer about the impact of sanctions on the situation in Primorye. Tokyo, in response to the expulsion of its diplomat, caught in espionage, from Vladivostok, expels one employee of the Russian consulate in Sapporo, the Kyodo agency reports.
The Russian Ambassador protested to the Japanese side over the «inadequate and arbitrary decision» to declare the Russian diplomat persona non grata.
The expelled Russian diplomat, unlike the Japanese consul in Vladivostok, did not commit any actions contradicting his status and mission, the embassy in Tokyo said.