British diplomat ordered out of Russia in tit-for-tat expulsion | World news | The Guardian

British diplomat ordered out of Russia in tit-for-tat expulsion | World news | The Guardian: "Russia hit back at Britain today for expelling a diplomat from its London embassy for spying, saying Moscow had been forced to respond in kind for the ''groundless'' move.

The mutual diplomatic expulsions between Russia and Britain are the first since 2007, when Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko was killed in London with a rare radioactive isotope.

'The British side took an unfriendly step the other day, having groundlessly declared one of our colleagues in our embassy in London persona non grata,' Russia's foreign ministry said in a statement.

'We were forced to take an adequate corresponding measure,' the statement on the foreign ministry's website said."

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