LONDON • All depressingly familiar. After Britain expelled 23 Russian diplomats from London last week, Russia has just kicked out exactly the same number of British diplomats from Moscow.
The dispute is about the mysterious use of a lethal nerve agent in an attempt to assassinate a former Russian spy who now lives in Britain, as well as his daughter, a crime the British government has firmly blamed on Russia.
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