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60 U.S. Diplomats Leave Russian Posts, Expelled Over Skripal Poisoning Row

The Americans include 58 employees of the U.S. embassy in Moscow and two staff members of the Consulate General in the Ural city of Yekaterinburg.

Sixty American diplomats are leaving Russia on Thursday, meeting a deadline set when the Kremlin expelled them in retaliation for the U.S. expulsion of Russian diplomats. The tit-for-tat exchange is part

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