Russian Embassy in London
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| State level | bilateral | ||
| Position of the authority | Embassy | ||
| Supervisory authority (s) | Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation | ||
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 London
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| ambassador | Alexander Vladimirovich Jakovenko | ||
| Website | rusemb.org.uk | ||
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The Russian Embassy in London is the Russian Federation's diplomatic mission in the United Kingdom . The main embassy building is at 5 and 6–7 Kensington Palace Gardens at the intersection with Bayswater Road. The ambassador resides in his own building at 13 Kensington Palace Gardens, the so-called Harrington House. The Military Attaché's office is located at 44 Millfield Lane, Highgate and the Russian Foreign Trade Office is located at 33 Highgate West Hill, Highgate.
Alexander Jakowenko is the current (as of August 2017) Russian Ambassador to the United Kingdom .
building
The embassy of the Russian Empire in London was at Chesham Place, Belgravia. The building became the embassy of the Soviet Union between 1924 and 1927, after which diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom were broken. From 1929 the embassy of the Soviet Union moved to the building at Kensington Palace Gardens and was taken over by the Russian Federation after the dissolution of the USSR .
history
The embassy has repeatedly been the scene of diplomatic disputes between western states and that of the Soviet Union, later Russia.
As a result of the poisoning of Alexander Walterowitsch Litvinenko in 2006, the Russian government under President Vladimir Putin refused to withdraw KGB employee Andrei Konstantinowitsch Lugowoi, who was suspected of murder, from the London embassy, whereupon he was declared persona non grata . His diplomatic passport expired on July 16, 2007.
On September 11, 2011, the embassy announced that they had been the target of a hacker attack over the previous weekend and that their official website could no longer be reached due to a denial-of-service attack . She then set up a replacement page.
The Russian Embassy in Great Britain responded in 2016 with a tweet to the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats from the United States by the then US President Barack Obama because of suspected hacker attacks from Russia. She wrote that Obama had created a «déjà vu» from the times of the Cold War, that "like everyone" was happy to see the end of "this hapless" government.
In 2016, the Russian government complained that the UK was very delayed in issuing visas for its embassy staff. Ambassador Alexander Jakowenko complained that the staff could not be replaced because there was a lack of visas and the staff would therefore have to be downsized. This practice came at a time of tension between Great Britain and Russia, mainly because of Russia's involvement in the Syrian war.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Russian Embassy in London mocks Obama on Twitter . In: watson.ch . ( watson.ch [accessed on August 19, 2017]).
- ↑ a b n-tv news television: Russian embassy in London is shrinking . In: n-tv.de . ( n-tv.de [accessed on August 19, 2017]).
- ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: Litvinenko case: suspected ex-agent Lugowoi contaminated with radioactivity - SPIEGEL ONLINE - politics. Retrieved August 19, 2017 .
- ↑ Reuters Editorial: Russian Embassy in London likely target of hacker attack . In: DE . ( reuters.com [accessed August 19, 2017]).