Foreign Minister invited Putin to announce 35 of U.S. diplomats persona non grata – RBC

the Embassy of the United States of America in Moscow

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the Russian Authorities may deport 35 U.S. diplomats in retaliation for the sanctions. The foreign Ministry has also proposed a ban on diplomats to use a dacha in Serebryany Bor

the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia proposed by President Vladimir Putin to expel 31 employee of the U.S. Embassy and four employees of the Consulate General in St. Petersburg, said foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Such measures will respond to the sanctions, which the US authorities has introduced yesterday.

“We certainly can’t leave such a thing unanswered. Reciprocity is the law of diplomacy and international relations”, — said the Minister (quoted by TASS).

Lavrov also proposed to ban American diplomats to use a dacha in Serebryany Bor and warehouse on Road street in the capital.

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the foreign Minister expressed hope that Moscow will promptly consider all proposals in response to the sanctions. He assured that Russia will not leave sanctions without a response, the United States, but will act according to the principles of reciprocity.

the United States expanded sanctions against Russia in response to “interference in the elections.” Sergei Lavrov reiterated that such accusations are unfounded. He stressed that the us government has not led evidence of Russia’s involvement in influencing the election process.

“the Outgoing American administration of Barack Obama, accusing Russia of all mortal sins by trying to accuse us of including the failure of its foreign policy initiatives, as you know, wrongly put forward additional charges,” the Minister said (quoted by “Interfax”).

the New restrictive measures affected the FSB, the GRU, three legal entities and six individuals, including the head of the GRU of the General staff Igor Korobov and his three deputies. The state Department also declared persona non grata 35 Russian diplomats who must leave the U.S. within 72 hours.

CNN, citing an informed U.S. official said on the eve of prohibiting the employees of the American Embassy in Russia to visit holiday house in Serebryany Bor in retaliation. The channel also wrote that the Russian government is instructed to close the Anglo-American school in Moscow, where children of employees of embassies of the USA, Canada and UK.

However, the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova in an interview with RBC called the information about the closure of schools is not true.