Employees of Consulate General of Czech Republic in Yekaterinburg leave Urals - Russian Foreign Ministry

YEKATERINBURG. March 3 (Interfax) - Employees of the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Yekaterinburg have left for Moscow. This information has been confirmed to Interfax by the Russian Foreign Ministry's representative in Yekaterinburg, Alexander Kharlov.

"We have not received any official documents, but according to the information that I have, the staff of the Czech consulate have left for Moscow," he said.

It was reported last Friday that the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Yekaterinburg had temporarily stopped serving applicants on Friday. An informed source told Interfax on Wednesday that employees of the Consulate General had left Yekaterinburg.