Cars with diplomatic plates started to leave the territory of the U.S. Consulate General in St. Petersburg, reports journalist Last news from the event. At least chetyre SUV with diplomatic plates drove out of the courtyard of the Consulate on Furshtatskaya ulitsa. About eleven: 20 the building began to make boxes, bags and furniture. Under a sight a body - and cameras things are loaded into trucks that then leave. Authorities also detained a man who threw a Cup of coffee in the house of the Consulate. He shouted demands to us diplomats to leave the Russian Federation and to remove the American flag. In the morning the day before the closure of the US Consulate General in St. Petersburg, excitement and hasty levies were not observed. Worker delivery service Pony Express carried out of the building 3 of the yellow bag. Also the building of the Consulate left a woman with 2 packets that went on a car delivery service. The national flag of the USA on the building of the Embassy at half-mast. As explained by the Employee of law enforcement bodies, this is due to the tragedy in the shopping center "Winter cherry" in Kemerovo, where a Sunday afternoon when a fire took the life of 64 people. on Thursday, the authorities told about the expulsion of sixty American Diplomats and the closure of the US Consulate General in the Northern capital. The measures were a response to the decision of the US capital about sixty expulsion of Russian Diplomats and the abolition of the Consulate General in Seattle. Russia will send 58 of the Embassy staff in the capital of Russia and 2 employees of Consulate in Ekaterinburg. Diplomats ordered to leave the country until April 5. The building of the Consulate in St. Petersburg ordered to leave no later than 31 March.