The US requested 24 Russian diplomats leave the country when their US visas expire September 3, Russian media reported Monday citing the Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov.
Anatoly griped to the Washington-based The National Interest in a little-noticed interview published Sunday and shared by the Russsian Embassy on Facebook Monday that in addition to the lack of visa renewals for his personnel, the US imposed a three-year restriction on Russian diplomats’ tenure in the US.
Antonov said, “The expulsions of diplomats are implemented under far-fetched pretexts now and then.”