Russia to expel 23 UK diplomats

British
Ambassador to Russia Laurie Bristow arrives at the Russian
Foreign places Ministry in Moscow
Thomson
Reuters

• The Russian executive will expel 23 UK
  diplomats.
• The cross mirrors the UK executive’s decision to expel
  23 Russian diplomats from the UK, within the wake of the poisoning
  of aged undercover agent Sergei Skripal.

LONDON — The Russian executive will expel 23 British diplomats,
news companies reported, amid political tensions sparked by the
poisoning of aged undercover agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter.

The British Council in Russia, which « global
organisation for cultural household members and tutorial
alternatives, » may per chance well also be shut down.

The cross mirrors the UK executive’s decision to expel 23 Russian
diplomats from the UK, blaming the nation for authorising the
exhaust of a toxic nerve agent against the Skripals in Salisbury.

Earlier on Saturday Russia’s foreign ministry summoned
Britain’s ambassador to the nation, Laurie Bristow, for a
assembly, as diplomatic household members proceed to sour. 

Russia’s Defence Ministry called UK Defence Secretary Gavin
Williamson a « unpleasant veteran harpy » on Thursday,
after 
he
acknowledged the nation may per chance well soundless
 « shut up » and « poke
away. »

On Friday, London’s Metropolitan Police acknowledged a Russian
exile against Russian President Vladimir Putin who became found out
tiring in London became murdered.

Nikolai Glushkov, Sixty 9, became found out tiring at his dwelling in southwest
London at about 10:Forty six p.m. on Monday. A subsequent pathologist
document found out that Glushkov died by a « compression to the neck, »
the police acknowledged.

Glushkov became easiest known for being a discontinuance accomplice of the
Russian oligarch and effectively-known Putin critic Boris Berezovsky, who
became found out tiring on the bathroom floor of his ex-wife’s dwelling in
Ascot, southeast England, in 2013.