According to RIA Novosti, Permanent Deputy Ambassador of Germany to Russia Beate Gzheski and a representative of the Swedish Embassy in Moscow also arrived at the building of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Earlier, the Council of the European Union extended economic sanctions against Russia for six months.

In November, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow had already adopted mirror-like retaliatory sanctions on the situation with Alexei Navalny, which concerned a number of representatives of Germany and France.