Australia blocked Russia from building a new embassy in the shadow of Parliament House Thursday after intelligence officials warned it posed a spying risk and security threat. Australia Russia World News GuardianNg
Russia holds the lease for a parcel of land some 400 metres from Australia’s parliamentary precinct in Canberra and has been laying the foundations for a new embassy building.
“The government has received very clear security advice as to the risk posed by a new Russian presence so close to Parliament House,” he told reporters.A Russian diplomat told AFP that “the embassy is seeking legal advice” in the wake of the announcement. “The decision to place an embassy in a location obviously has very specific intent behind it,” he told AFP.Desmond said this could include signals intelligence and tailing Australian officials.
“Russia has some of the largest, most capable, most aggressive, and least constrained intelligence services in the world,” he said.Albanese said he expected some blowback from Russia.
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