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Russia set to retaliate in hacking spat by expelling 35 US diplomats

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Russia set to retaliate in hacking spat by expelling 35 US diplomats

Vladimir Putin‘s Russia is set to retaliate after the US imposed sanctions on it, including expelling its diplomats for interfering in the last US elections, by planning to expel 35 US diplomats and ban US diplomatic staff from using the dacha, or country house.

The development seen as an apparent tit-for-tat move was proposed to Putin by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

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“Russia’s foreign ministry … has requested that the Russian president approve declaring as personae non gratae 31 employees of the US embassy in Moscow and four diplomats from the US consulate in St Petersburg,” Lavrov said in televised comments.

Ealier, Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian prime minister, said the outgoing Obama administration was ending its term in “anti-Russia agony”.

“It is regrettable that the Obama administration, which started out by restoring our ties, is ending its term in an anti-Russia agony. RIP,” Medvedev tweeted.

 

 

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