"No one will be looking for him across the world. We just tell him: 'Don't come to Russia anymore'". This is what Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Bulgaria, Eleonora Mitrofanova, told journalists after a half-hour meeting in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Sofia. She was summoned there to give an explanation on the occasion of placing the Bulgarian investigative journalist Christo Grozev in a list of wanted people by the Russian Ministry of Interior. Mitrofanova said it was agreed that the Bulgarian Ministry of the Interior would request official information from the Ministry of the Interior of the Russian Federation about the case against Grozev
Mitrofanova added that the meeting also discussed information about the abolition of the study of the Bulgarian language in schools with ethnic Bulgarians in the occupied Ukrainian territories and the removal of portraits of prominent Bulgarian personalities. According to her, a check would be made.
Moscow places Bulgarian investigative journalist on wanted list
Russian occupiers ban teaching Bulgarian language in Ukrainian regions
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