{"id":430869,"date":"2021-04-16T16:05:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T20:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=430869"},"modified":"2021-04-16T16:05:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T20:05:29","slug":"russia-expels-american-diplomats-in-retaliatory-move-to-sanctions-by-the-biden-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-expels-american-diplomats-in-retaliatory-move-to-sanctions-by-the-biden-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Expels American Diplomats In Retaliatory Move to Sanctions By The Biden Administration"},"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\">26<\/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-american-diplomats-in-retaliatory-move-to-sanctions-by-the-biden-administration%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=430869&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><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"41.97038961039\">\n<p>Russia announced Friday that they would be expelling ten American diplomats in response to new sanctions the Biden administration imposed against the country, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe latest attack on our country undertaken by the Biden administration, of course, cannot remain unanswered,\u201d Russia\u2019s foreign ministry said in a statement, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/russia-to-expel-10-u-s-diplomats-from-embassy-in-moscow-11618592354?mod=hp_lead_pos10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to the WSJ. \u201cWashington, it seems, doesn\u2019t want to put up with the fact that in the new geopolitical realities there is no place for unilateral dictatorship.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/15\/joe-biden-sanctions-russia-putin-solarwinds-hack-department-treasury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED:&nbsp;Biden Greenlights Sweeping Sanctions Against Russia In Retaliation For SolarWinds Hack And Other \u2018Malign Behavior\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Russia also retaliated against the U.S. for what Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov alleged as meddling in Russia\u2019s politics, by placing eight American officials on a sanctions list. In addition, Lavrov said that Moscow would close down U.S. nongovernment organizations (NGOs) in the Russian Federation, the WSJ reported.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.0710900473934\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: President Biden announces new sanctions on Russia, expulsion of 10 diplomats, in retaliation for hacking and election interference. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Kzqvw31RcG\">https:\/\/t.co\/Kzqvw31RcG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Associated Press (@AP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP\/status\/1382671676433965064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Biden administration said it would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?client=internal-element-cse&amp;cx=013858372769713515008:m9uq4uupsfm&amp;q=https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/15\/joe-biden-sanctions-russia-putin-solarwinds-hack-department-treasury\/&amp;sa=U&amp;ved=2ahUKEwi1nceAxYPwAhWIKVkFHYvGCSUQFjAAegQIAxAC&amp;usg=AOvVaw2EgzkQ5pKj64Xc8wNIr21-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sanction Russia<\/a> on Thursday for multiple violations, including the alleged 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/29\/russia-hackers-microsoft-solarwinds-united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hacking<\/a> of the U.S. technology firm SolarWinds\u2014a claim Russia denies\u2014and alleged meddling in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, the Associated Press (AP) <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-us-sanctions-sergey-lavrov-biden-4a935cd62c5db333ed082df447feddb8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. The Biden administration also expelled ten Russian diplomats and restricted Russia\u2019s ability to borrow money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-62 Component-p-0-2-53\">Lavrov described the actions of the Biden administration as \u201cabsolutely unfriendly and unprovoked,\u201d according to the AP. Lavrov threatened to take \u201cpainful measures\u201d against American interests in Russia in the future, including a request for a reduction of the American embassy and consular staff, the AP reported.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia announced Friday that they would be expelling ten American diplomats in response to new sanctions the Biden administration imposed against the country, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276124,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}