Moscow says France temporarily detained govt employee at airport

Moscow on Wednesday said that France's border police had temporarily detained a Russian foreign ministry employee at a French airport, and that the French ambassador had been summoned for a dressing down over the incident.

"In the course of the conversation, the Russian foreign ministry issued a strong protest to the head of the French embassy. As a result of the demarche, our colleague was eventually allowed to enter the country," Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a briefing.