JUDY WOODRUFF: The government of Russia announced today that the U.S. would need to drastically reduce the number of its officials working in Russia, and could no longer use two properties there.
Hari Sreenivasan is in New York with more.
HARI SREENIVASAN: The move follows two American actions, both related to the Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Last December, the Obama administration seized two Russian-owned compounds in the U.S., and expelled 35 Russian diplomats who the U.S. claimed were intelligence operatives.
Yesterday, the U.S. Senate passed a bill that included new sanctions on Russia for its election hacking. That bill now …read more
Source: PBS
