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Expulsions of diplomats
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- Russia has said it will expel 60 U.S. diplomats and close the American consulate in St. Petersburg.
- It has been done as part of a tit-for-tat retaliation against the expulsions of dozens of Russian diplomats ordered by the US and other countries earlier this week over the poisoning of a former spy in Britain.
- Russia's foreign ministry said that 58 staffs from the U.S. embassy in Moscow and 2 from its consulate in Ekaterinburg will be declared "persona non-grata" and must leave Russia before April 5.
- US President ordered 60 Russian diplomats, whom it considers as spies, to leave the country in response to the nerve-agent poisoning of a former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the UK and closed Russia's consulate in Seattle.
- Further,14 European Union countries announced they were expelling a total of 30 Russian diplomats in a coordinated international response.
- This was the biggest Western expulsion of Russian diplomats since the height of the Cold War.
- Australia also announced that it would expel two Russian diplomats over the UK spy attack.
- The U.K. has already called in the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to analyse the nerve agent (so-called Novichok type of nerve agent) used in the poison attack.
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