Russia is pushing the Irish Government to extend its Ambassador Yury Filatov’s visa so he can stay here.
His visa and ID card is due to expire within weeks and he needs the documentation renewed. But a senior Government source said that they expected that Mr Filatov’s visa would be extended.
The source added last night: “We are not planning to expel the Russian Ambassador and we are not going to do it through a backdoor way. If we were going to expel him, we’d make a big deal out of it.”
