Russia expels 4 British diplomats as row escalates
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Russia expelled four British diplomats on Thursday and suspended cooperation with London on fighting terrorism, as a bitter row over Moscow's refusal to extradite a murder suspect escalated.
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The move was a response to Britainâs expulsion of the same number of Russian diplomats earlier this week.
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"Obviously we take that very seriously indeed. ... Any intimidation or harassment of officials is obviously completely unacceptable."  A British cultural organization accused Russian authorities on Wednesday of harassing its staff and said it had temporarily closed its offices in St. Petersburg.The British Council, which acts as the cultural arm of the British Embassy, said the director of its St. Petersburg office was followed and stopped by Russian law enforcement authorities and that intelligence agency officials had interviewed its Russian employees.British Foreign Secretary David Miliband described the Russian actions as an attack on the council. Britain's Foreign Office said Russia's ambassador to London was summoned for talks with British officials. Read more
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Russia said it would deliver a response  on Tuesday to Britain&#39;s decision to expel four of its  diplomats, amid signs that it will not allow the diplomatic row  to affect booming economic ties.
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Britain will expel four Russian diplomats to protest Moscow&#39;s refusal to extradite a key suspect in the killing of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Monday.
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Threats by Russia to take further action against the British Council "can only make matters worse", the foreign secretary says.
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Russia and Britain traded threats and  recrimination on Tuesday as a diplomatic feud over the role of  the British government's cultural arm worsened.
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The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned Britain's ambassador Monday, after the British Council defied orders by reopening its offices.
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The UK expels four Russian diplomats over Moscow's refusal to extradite the Litvinenko murder suspect.
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Britain said on Monday it would expel four diplomats from the Russian embassy in London and suspend visa negotiations in retaliation for Moscow's refusal to extradite a suspect in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko.
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Russia said on Friday it was expelling a Latvian diplomat after the Baltic state expelled one of Moscow's diplomats in a row over an apparent spying case.
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Russia said on Thursday it would expel four British diplomats from Moscow, retaliating for Britain's decision earlier this week to send home four Russian diplomats.
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MOSCOW, July 19 -- Russia expelled four British diplomats on Thursday, retaliating three days after officials in London ordered four Russians out of the country in a dispute over a murder investigation.
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Russia is planning &quot;appropriate&quot; measures in response to Britain&#39;s announcement of the expulsion of four Russian diplomats from London, a foreign ministry said in a statement Tuesday.
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MOSCOW, July 19-- Russia expelled four British diplomats on Thursday, retaliating in-kind just days after officials in London kicked four Russians out of the country in protest over the progress of a murder investigation.
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Russia recalled its ambassador from   neighboring Georgia on Thursday and ordered the evacuation of   some of its officials, escalating a crisis sparked by the   detention of four Russian army officers on spying charges.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday the Litvinenko affair was damaging ties with Britain, which sent detectives to Moscow as part of the investigation into the ex-KGB spy's death by poisoning.