The Russian foreign Ministry has declared persona non grata 23 employee of the British Embassy and asked in a persistent form, to leave the Russian Federation during the week, notified on the Internet representation offices.
in addition, given the disparity in the consular relations, Moscow has withdrawn consent to the opening of the British Consulate General in St. Petersburg. Also stops the activity of the British Council in connection with the unresolved status.
The Russian foreign Ministry warned London that if his part will be followed by other actions of a hostile nature regarding Russia, that Moscow reserves the right to other responses." Case Skripal"
Relations between Russia and Britain escalated in connection with the poisoning of the former GRU Colonel Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia. The 4th of March found them unconscious in the centre of the British city of Salisbury. According to police, they were poisoned nervously-paralytic substance " Beginner ", as if produced in Russia.
Skripal was granted asylum in the UK in 2010, after it among the other spies were exchanged for Russian Residents captured in the United States.
British Prime Minister Theresa may, on 14 March accused the Russian Federation of involvement in the poisoning and said that London sends 23 Russian politics and breaks all contacts at a high level.
Moscow denies any inclusion in the poisoning, and foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the accusations nonsense. Russia is campaigning to hold a joint hearing of the conflict in Salisbury. In addition, the Investigation Committee, on its part, filed a Case under the criminal code about the assassination of a Russian citizen Yulia Skripal.