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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese dismissed concerns about a man suspected of being a Russian diplomat allegedly squatting on the site where a Moscow embassy was planned to be built in Canberra, saying that the man is just "some bloke" and not a national security threat. The Australian government revoked the lease last week citing national security concerns.
Australia's parliament will pass legislation to cancel Russia's lease on a site in Canberra, where it had plans to build a new embassy, due to concerns about national security. The move follows long-running litigation over the site after Australia's federal court ruled last month that an eviction order made by the National Capital Authority was invalid. The termination of the lease has no impact on Russia's existing embassy, which is in the former Soviet Union embassy in the suburb of Griffith, further away from Parliament House.