Moscow warns of diplomatic row with Qatar

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Moscow is demanding that Qatar frees two Russian security service agents arrested on charges of murdering a Chechen separatist leader in a car bomb explosion.


Foreign Minister Alexander Saltanov said on Friday that the incident risks hurting relations between the two countries.

"Our main objective today is to obtain the freedom of our embassy staff and their return home," Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Saltanov told a press conference on Friday.

"It's in the interests not only of the two men, but of Qatar and Russia and their bilateral relations," he added.

Qatar's interior ministry announced on Thursday that two men had been charged with assassinating former Chechen president Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev

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