All employees of the Russian Embassy in London have left?

All employees of the Russian Embassy in London from the various officers and attaches the last few days have left the UK

Wondering if there is any truth to this. It was tweeted out on the 12th.



Source

I am not Russian so I do not know the validity of this claim, but I would assume it would be easy to find out?

It was retweeted by Alexey Mukhin which is the only reason I am giving it any thought.



And as far as I can tell, he is a pretty reliable source for news in Russia, though there is always the possibility that I am incorrect on that assumption.

Alexey

Since January 1997 he has been Director General of the Centre for Political Information (Moscow).

Mr. Mukhin is an author of over 100 scientific papers, including monographs in the field of political science and history of Russia.
In 2002, as the editor-in-chief Mr. Mukhin issued an Internet- magazine FEC (Facts, Events, Comments).

a reply to: Vasa Croe

Either way the tweety twitters instill fear. Flame out!

Something might really have happened to Putin. His whole schedule this week has been doctored with events that happened beginning of march. Not feeling good about the consequences a power vacuum in Russia would have right now.

I'm finding literally nothing else about this. Not one thing. Not even anything in the UK.

This would be, or should be, a massive deal. I feel like, based off his syntax, something may be lost in translation. We'll have to wait and see I guess, but it's got me scratching my head.

Nothing on the RussianEmbassyUK twitter account.


mobile.twitter.com...

originally posted by: Shamrock6
I'm finding literally nothing else about this. Not one thing. Not even anything in the UK.

This would be, or should be, a massive deal. I feel like, based off his syntax, something may be lost in translation. We'll have to wait and see I guess, but it's got me scratching my head.

Yeah....I searched all over for anything and this was all I could find as well, but for the reporter to retweet it seems odd to me....he doesn't seem to have a history of BS stories.

I'm not being funny, but just because someone tweets a statement and it gets retweeted by somebody else, does not make that statement a fact. There needs to be a more credible source for this.

It would be extremely obvious if all the Russian Embassy staff up and left the UK.

originally posted by: CharlieSpeirs
Nothing on the RussianEmbassyUK twitter account.


mobile.twitter.com...

yeah....I have been on their site as well and can't find anything, but I wouldn't think anyone would say anything either. My thoughts actually went to the possibility that Russia thinks the UK has some involvement in the assassination of Putin's critic.

originally posted by: iskander683
I'm not being funny, but just because someone tweets a statement and it gets retweeted by somebody else, does not make that statement a fact. There needs to be a more credible source for this.

It would be extremely obvious if all the Russian Embassy staff up and left the UK.

Which is exactly why I put it up with the disclaimers of

Wondering if there is any truth to this.

and

I am not Russian so I do not know the validity of this claim, but I would assume it would be easy to find out?

and

It was retweeted by Alexey Mukhin which is the only reason I am giving it any thought.

a reply to: iskander683

Twitter, despite being a troll fest...

Has a history of tweeting news long before it becomes known or mainstream.

a reply to: Vasa Croe

I'd expect that the UK are definitely a suspect.

Probably not too near the top of the list though.



I always thought Embassy's had people from the Countries they represent and the Country they're based in...

So I'd also have thought that a few Englishmen would have known about this...



However I could be wrong about that!

There is also this from the Embassy twitter page which is disconcerting as well with all the threats from NK wanting to kill the US...

Source

PRESS RELEASE
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov, Foreign Minister Ri Yong Su


445-13-03-2015

March 13, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Lee Soo-Yong, who is in Moscow travel.
The sides exchanged views on bilateral relations, the situation on the Korean Peninsula and in Northeast Asia, as well as some international issues of common interest.

March 13, 2015

So NK went to Russia on the 13th.....crazy that Putin was not involved.....that is cause for a bit of an eyebrow raise I think.....

And of course this tweet from Russia is very touchy feely.....how sweet...

Embassy twitter account

2015 has been declared Year of Friendship between Russia and Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

All I can say is this:

If Russian officials are leaving the UK, anyone from ATS living in London might want to consider taking a vacation from London for a few weeks.

Just in case.

I realise that and I wasn't having a go at you so there's no need to take it personally. I was just giving out some common sense.

And, in reply to CharlieSpeirs, I know that twitter is sometimes ahead of the game. All I can say is, I hope that there's no truth in it because, if there is, the sh*t really is probably about to hit the fan.

a reply to: CharlieSpeirs

Has anyone in your neck of the woods posted about seeing any unusual activity around the Russian embassy? I was looking through the Russian embassy webpage for travel advisories to the UK, and didn't see anything. I'm curious as to how accurate this twitter post is.

originally posted by: ScientificRailgun
All I can say is this:

If Russian officials are leaving the UK, anyone from ATS living in London might want to consider taking a vacation from London for a few weeks.

Just in case.

That means you Charlie! And truebrit and britguy.........

I don't think so, if this was the case it would be huge news, a major diplomatic incident.

I think it would be wise and more worrisome, to watch the embassies in D.C. and in NY. If they go missing. Then we'll know for sure.
Though the only other news is that Putin has, is bad seasonal allergies. But no stroke.