INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russia has ordered the closure of three Baltic consulates Thursday and ordered the expulsion of all their non-Russian staff in retaliation
to similar moves by Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.The Estonian and Lithuanian consulates in St
Petersburg, as well as the Latvian consulates in St
Petersburg and Pskov, will now have to close
and Lithuanian governments demanded that Russia withdraw its troops from Ukraine in their respective decisions to shut down Russian
consulates.Tit-for-tat Russian and western diplomatic expulsions have reached a 20-year high so far in 2022.
