Poland summons Russian ambassador over assassination comment
Poland's Foreign Ministry has summoned the Russian ambassador in protest after a former Russian official suggested that it would be acceptable to assassinate Poland’s ambassador to Russia WARSAW, Poland -- The Polish Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian ambassador in protest Friday after a former Russian official suggested that it would be acceptable to assassinate Poland's ambassador to Russia. Pavel Astakhov, Russia's children’s ombudsman from 2009 to 2016, spoke on a television program hosted by Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov. He was being interviewed after Polish authorities took over a school building in Warsaw on Saturday that was serving the children of Russian diplomats and the Military . Astakhov argued that murdering an ambassador in retaliation “for unfriendly actions ... is within the framework of international law," adding: “I was taught this well at the KGB school at the counterintelligence faculty." That school takeover was the latest of...