Within a day of the Russian television channel NTV running footage of the assault on an American citizen by Russian security services just outside the doors of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, the U.S. State Department announced that it had expelled two Russian diplomats and had declared them persona non grata, just a little less than two weeks after the original incident. The two Russian diplomats, who remain unnamed, were told to leave on Friday, June 17, while the beating of the U.S. diplomat occurred on June 6.Then, this morning, Russia publicly announced that it had expelled two U.S. diplomats, …read more
Source: The American Interest
