Kremlin: Putin relieves Russian ambassador to UK Yakovenko of his duties

  26 August 2019    Read: 1593
  Kremlin: Putin relieves Russian ambassador to UK Yakovenko of his duties

Russian President Vladimir Putin has relieved Russian Ambassador to the United Kingdom Alexander Yakovenko of his duties, with a relevant decree published on the official legal information portal, AzVision.az reports citing Sputnik.

"To relieve Yakovenko Alexander Vladimirovich from his duties of the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland," the decree read.

The Russian Embassy in the United Kingdom said on Saturday that Yakovenko had departed to Russia after relinquishing his duties.

Yakovenko was appointed as the ambassador to the United Kingdom in 2011.


More about: Russia   UK  


News Line