Margarita Atanasov and Mercedes Stephenson

Mercedes Stephenson: The diplomat, identified as Margarita Atanasov, serves as Canadas First Secretary of the immigration section at the Canadian Embassy in the Russian capital. She is to leave Russia within 14 days, s Mercedes Stephenson reported, according to CTV. Its not uncommon to see this sort of tit-for-tat, one-for-one, Stephenson said and Russia has expelled a Canadian diplomat from Moscow, government sources confirm to News, after Canada forced out a Russian military attache earlier this month over the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. Atanasovs expulsion from Russia comes about two weeks after Canada expelled assistant military attache Lieut.-Col. Yury Bezler from Ottawa. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.