Britain expels Russian diplomats in murder row
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Britain said on Monday it would expel four Russian diplomats over Moscow's refusal to extradite the main suspect in the murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, a move likely to hurt ties and provoke retaliation.
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Russia has sent Britain an official refusal to extradite the chief suspect in the murder last year of a former Russian agent in London, news agency Interfax quoted sources in Moscow as saying on Thursday.
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Russia said it would deliver a response today to Britainâs 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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LONDON/MOSCOW  - Britain accused Russia of "conduct not worthy of a great country" on Thursday after what it called a campaign of intimidation by security services forced its cultural centers in two Russian cities to halt operations.
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Russia was set to respond on Tuesday to Britain's decision to expel four of its diplomats in a row over the murder of a Russian emigre amid signs Moscow did not want the affair to rebound on booming economic ties.
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LONDON -- The European Union threw its weight behind Britain yesterday in a dispute with Russia over its refusal to extradite a man suspected of killing a former KGB agent in London last year.
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Russia's Foreign Ministry summoned the British ambassador on Monday after Britain defied a Kremlin order and reopened its cultural offices in a row that has soured already-poor relations between the two powers.
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Britain's controversial envoy to Uzbekistan has been withdrawn after accusing London of using information obtained under torture in the former Soviet republic, a foreign office official told AFP.
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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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British officials chose unusually sharp language to protest Moscowâs refusal to extradite the man accused of murdering a former KGB agent.
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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 their investigation into the ex-KGB spy's death by poisoning.
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Russia on Thursday officially refused a request from Britain to extradite the chief suspect in the murder last year of a former Russian agent in London, the Russian prosecutor general&#39;s office said.
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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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LONDON -- Prime Minister Gordon Brown's new government ordered the expulsion of four Russian diplomats yesterday over the Kremlin's refusal to extradite the key suspect in the fatal poisoning of a former KGB spy -- Britain's first use of the sanction in more than 10 years.
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Britain has declared diplomatic war on Russia by expelling four envoys from London and failing to respect Moscow's constitutional ban on extradition, Russian newspapers said on Tuesday.
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Britain ordered the expulsion of four Russian diplomats on Monday over Moscow's refusal to hand over the main suspect in the murder of ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, escalating tension between Russia and the West.
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MOSCOW -- Russia said yesterday that it would expel four British diplomats and suspend counterterrorism cooperation with London in the latest step in a confrontation linked to the radiation-poisoning death of a former KGB agent turned Kremlin critic.