Maslov

Russia's Ambassador to Greece Andrey Maslov has criticized the Prespes accord, saying that the West is destabilizing the Balkans by pushing North Macedonia to join NATO.

Russia's ambassador to Greece, Andrey Maslov, has criticized a decision by Athens last week to expel two Russian diplomats and to bar two other people from entering the country as "disappointing."

The Russian ambassador to Greece, Andrey Maslov, has ruled out the possibility of an armed conflict between Greece and Turkey, pointing out that both countries are members of the NATO alliance.

"I cannot imagine an armed conflict in the Aegean. We are talking about two countries that are members of the North Atlantic Alliance," Maslov told a press briefing in Athens Tuesday.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras?s planned visit to Moscow on April 8 will be a ?big event? in the course of relations between Greece and Russia, according to the Russian ambassador in Athens, Andrey Maslov, who told Sunday?s Kathimerini that his government would examine any request from the SYRIZA-led coalition for a loan.