Russia is still fuming about the Obama Admin kicking 35 of their diplomats out of the US and seizing a couple properties due to the investigation of Russian hacking back in December 2016. Now Russian officials are calling for retaliation against the US if the properties are not returned (among other demands), but Trump Admin ain’t budging. – PB/TK
Russia, after U.S. meeting on diplomatic row, says ready to retaliate – reuters / July 18 2017
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday Moscow reserved the right to take retaliatory measures against the United States after a meeting in Washington ended without a deal on returning seized Russian diplomatic property.
Barack Obama, then U.S. president, ordered the seizure of two Russian diplomatic compounds and the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats in December over what he said was their involvement in hacking the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign, something Russia flatly denies.
Moscow has said a lot would depend on the outcome of a meeting in Washington on Monday between Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov and U.S. Undersecretary of State Thomas Shannon who discussed the diplomatic row.
But the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday a resolution to the problem had not yet been found.
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