Britain expels Russian diplomats amid Cold War clouds
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Britain said Monday it will expel four Russian diplomats over Moscow&#39;s refusal to extradite a key suspect in the murder of ex agent Alexander Litvinenko, raising the spectre of a Cold War-style standoff.
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The UK expels four Russian diplomats over Moscow's refusal to extradite the Litvinenko murder suspect.
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Russia began pulling out some of its  diplomats and their families from Georgia on Friday as the  small ex-Soviet state pressed spying charges against a group of  Russian army officers.
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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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The diplomatic row over the extradition of Andrei Lugovoi could see tit-for-tat expulsion of diplomats and withdrawal of British cooperation in key areas.
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Russia expelled four British diplomats Thursday in an escalating conflict, but President Vladimir Putin sought to calm what he called a "mini-crisis" over his refusal to extradite a suspect in the murder of a Kremlin critic in London.
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Britain's controversial envoy to Uzbekistan has been withdrawn after accusing London of using information obtained under torture in the former Soviet republic, a foreign office official told AFP.
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Britain has declared diplomatic war on  Russia by expelling four envoys from London and failing to  respect Moscow&#39;s constitutional ban on extradition, Russian  newspapers said on Tuesday.
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The diplomatic tension between Britain and Russia took a new twist last night when a man linked to the murdered dissident Alexander Litvinenko sought political asylum in Britain
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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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MOSCOW, Jan. 16 -- Escalating a diplomatic dispute with Britain, Russian security agents called in Russian employees of the British Council for questioning Wednesday and police briefly detained the Briton who heads the cultural organization's St. Petersburg office.
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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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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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The Russian government expels four British diplomats in the continuing Alexander Litvinenko murder row.
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Russia has expelled four British diplomats, days after Britain expelled four Russian diplomats in a row over Moscow's refusal to hand over a suspect in the poisoning death of an ex-KGB spy.
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Two disputed offices of the British Council are likely to remain closed amid ongoing UK-Russia tensions.
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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.