At least eight employees of Russian embassies who were expelled from the European Union are now working in the Russian diplomatic mission in Serbia, according to an investigation by Radio Liberty.
The publication found out that the new position was received, in particular, by the second secretary of the Croatian embassy, \u200b\u200b38-year-old Alexei Ivanenko. April 11, 2022 Croatia announced the expulsion of him and 17 other Russian diplomats, as well as six administrative and technical employees of the Russian Embassy. Ivanenko and his wife were sent to Serbia in October last year, where he is the first secretary of the embassy.
The publication notes that back in 2010-2011, Ivanenko worked in military unit 71330, which is allegedly associated with the 16th FSB center, which the US authorities consider responsible for hacker attacks on American critical infrastructure facilities..
Expelled from Poland for espionage on March 23, employees of the Russian embassy also found a new job: from the list of those who left the diplomatic mission, in particular, the names of mission adviser Mikhail Generalov and his wife disappeared. Now Generalov is listed in the same status on the website of the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs among the employees of the Russian embassy in Serbia.
Among those who moved to Serbia, according to journalists, is also the son of a former employee of the military topographic department of the General Staff and director of the 29th Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense, 38-year-old Dmitry Barabin. Instead of Serbia, he was supposed to be in The Hague, but did not have time to arrive at a new place of work due to a visa refusal.
Another ex-European diplomat who now works at the Russian Embassy in Belgrade is Petr Dolgoshein. Until the summer of 2022, he served as Second Secretary of the Russian Embassy in Helsinki.
The First Secretary of the Embassy in Serbia is Denis Rumyantsev, who worked in Macedonia in 2019. Another first secretary is Alexander Novikov: in 2018 he worked in the Russian mission to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and was listed on the OPCW website as a representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
On March 13, Serbian Minister of Economy Rade Basta spoke in favor of the introduction of restrictive measures against Russia by his state due to the invasion of Ukraine..