{"id":9953,"date":"2025-05-13T12:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T07:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=9953"},"modified":"2025-05-13T12:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T07:36:18","slug":"russia-considering-closing-polish-consulates-deputy-foreign-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/asia\/russia-considering-closing-polish-consulates-deputy-foreign-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia considering closing Polish consulates: Deputy foreign minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia may close the Polish Consulate General\u2019s offices in Kaliningrad and Irkutsk in retaliation for Poland\u2019s recent decision to shut down the Russian Consulate General in Krakow, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to TASS, Grushko confirmed the possibility of reciprocal steps, saying: \u201cMaybe. (Moscow) will answer, of course.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Sunday, Polish authorities linked a major fire on May 12, 2024 at a shopping mall on Marywilska Street in the capital Warsaw to suspected sabotage by Russian operatives. The entire building burned down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Responding to the move, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said: \u201cWarsaw continues to deliberately destroy relations, acting against the interests of citizens. An adequate response to these inadequate steps will follow soon<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia may close the Polish Consulate General\u2019s offices in Kaliningrad and Irkutsk in retaliation for Poland\u2019s recent decision to shut down the Russian Consulate General in Krakow, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said Monday. Speaking to TASS, Grushko confirmed the possibility of reciprocal steps, saying: \u201cMaybe. (Moscow) will answer, of course.\u201d On Sunday, Polish authorities [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":9954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-latest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}