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US, Russia trade diplomatic expulsions

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    US, Russia trade diplomatic expulsions

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080508/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_russia

    WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say Russia has ordered two American military attaches at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to leave the country following the expulsion of a pair of Russian diplomats from Washington.

    The State Department says it disagrees with the move but will comply. Officials are playing down any linkage between the expulsions of the Americans that were ordered on April 28 and the expulsions of the Russians. One Russian military officer was ordered to leave Washington in November last year. The second was ordered to leave on April 22.

    News of the expulsions comes at a time of uncertainty in U.S.-Russian relations with the arrival in power on Wednesday of new Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his former boss, Vladimir Putin, becoming Prime Minister.
     

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