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1 of April, 14:04

Deported from U.S., Russian diplomats have returned to Moscow Second plane with Russian diplomats expelled from the United States, landed at the international airport Vnukovo, reports journalist Last news .

in the cabin of the aircraft special flight detachment "Russia" are Authorized Embassy with family members, and among them those who worked at the UN in new York.

This is the Second Board that brought home to the diplomats that the United States declared persona non grata. To pick up all the workers, they had to use 2 aircraft. One began the flight from the capital of the USA in the Russian capital, the Second made a landing in new York. The expulsion of diplomats

earlier in the week, the United States announced the expulsion of Russian diplomats 48 and 12 employees of the Russian mission to the UN, and the closure of the Russian Consulate General in Seattle for " the works Skripal ". Besides the United States, another 16 EU countries, as well as Canada, Norway, Australia, Moldova, Albania, Macedonia and Ukraine said a different number of commissioners of the Russian diplomatic mission persona non grata.

so, the country joined great Britain, which sent 23 diplomats from Russia.

Moscow has retaliated. Russia was obliged to leave the country 60 American diplomats and withdrew the consent to the workplace of the US Consulate General in St. Petersburg. Mirror measures also affected other countries.

On March 4, former GRU officer and British spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia was found unconscious in the city centre, Solari. London says that his former agent was poisoned with a substance A234, and the incident would be as if Moscow is involved. Russia rejects the allegations the British side, and stressed that London does not have any evidence.

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