{"id":1406563,"date":"2022-03-29T07:46:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T11:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1406563"},"modified":"2022-03-29T07:46:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T11:46:21","slug":"russia-expels-10-diplomats-from-baltic-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-expels-10-diplomats-from-baltic-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia expels 10 diplomats from Baltic nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-expels-10-diplomats-from-baltic-nations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1406563&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>FILE PHOTO: The Kremlin&#8217;s Spasskaya Tower and St. Basil&#8217;s Cathedral are seen through an art object in Zaryadye park in Moscow, Russia March 15, 2022.  REUTERS\/Evgenia Novozhenina\/File Photo<\/div>\n<p>March 29, 2022<\/p>\n<p>LONDON (Reuters) -Russia announced on Tuesday the expulsion of 10 diplomats from the three Baltic states in a tit-for-tat response, including three diplomats each from Estonia and Latvia, and four from Lithuania. <\/p>\n<p>The three Baltic nations expelled a total of 10 Russian diplomats in a coordinated move earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Latvia said the Russian diplomats\u2019 activities had been at odds with their diplomatic status and that the decision to expel them had also taken into account Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. <\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s foreign ministry said in its statement on Tuesday that it had called in the ambassadors of the three countries to complain about what it described as the \u201cprovocative\u201d and \u201cgroundless\u201d action taken against its diplomats.<\/p>\n<p>Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were all once part of the Soviet Union and are now members of both NATO and the European Union. They have strongly backed Western sanctions imposed on Moscow over its actions in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by ReutersEditing by Gareth Jones)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: The Kremlin&#8217;s Spasskaya Tower and St. Basil&#8217;s Cathedral are seen through an art object in Zaryadye park in Moscow, Russia March 15, 2022. 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