Detta skedde trots att Polen knappt två år tidigare, 1999, utvisade ett dussintal ryska diplomater, som var inblandade i flera aktiviteter som inte hade någonting med diplomati att göra. ###>This in spite of the fact that, just under two years earlier, in 1999, Poland expelled a dozen or so Russian diplomats, who were involved in a variety of activities, none of which had much to do with diplomacy.