MOSCOW: Russian media on Tuesday shared the view that Western countries’ coordinated expulsions of Russian diplomats following the poisoning in Britain of a former spy have plunged Moscow’s relations with the West into a new “Cold War”.
Twenty-four countries — including 17 member-states of the European Union — have expelled more than 100 Russian diplomats over the attempted murder in England of Russian national Sergei Skripal and his daughter.
Izvestia pro-Kremlin daily denounced what it called a “flash mob”, while Nezavisimaya Gazeta daily stressed that “never before have there been such coordinated expulsions”.
“Relationships between Russia and the West are entering a period …read more
Source: theSun
