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26 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Russia expels the Assistant Defense Attaché/Naval Attaché at the Italian Embassy in Moscow. He has 24 hours to leave the country. This in response to Russia being caught in espionage ops in Italy resulting in Italy expelling 2 Russians. Yet Russia somehow thought it was unfair
In other news the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania has declared the assistant to the military attaché of Russia Alexei Grishaev persona non grata. Also Russia expelled a Ukrainian embassy employee. Their homepage news is all embassy expulsions over the past week
In recent weeks, US, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Czech Republic , Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia have announced expulsions of Russian diplomats. What is notably missing is France and Germany remaining silent
Also Italy and Romania

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23 Apr
Medvedev announced to a Russian media outlet that the Cold War has returned between US-Russia. I'm sure it has nothing to do with Putin having a policy of destroying democracy and attacking Western countries (US) with his thuggish intelligence agents and endless operations
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22 Apr
I see a lot of people celebrating prematurely with Russia's announcement of withdrawal. First we need to see the satellite images to see what was exactly withdrawn. Also no equipment that took weeks to arrive is being removed. This situation still needs to be monitored closely
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22 Apr
Czech Republic announces that they will reduce the number of diplomats in the Russian embassy in Prague to match their numbers in Moscow
Now Russia responds by saying they want to reduce the 5 diplomats and 19 technical employees at the Czech embassy in Moscow. At this rate both will get to 0 soon

Looks like Slovakia ordered 3 Russian diplomats to leave in 7 days as a sign of solidarity with Czech. Allies!
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19 Apr
The Russian GRU assassins who are also behind the 2014 ammunition depot explosions in Czech Republic which led to this weekends expulsions of 18 Russian diplomats. Terrorist state
"Czech government said Monday it would eliminate Russia's Rosatom from a multi-billion-euro tender to build a new unit at a local nuclear plant because of the diplomatic row with Moscow." These actions hurt Putin's cronies and have a direct financial impact. We need more of this.
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15 Apr
The Russian foreign ministry has summoned the US ambassador in Russia. No details yet!
Also 10 russian diplomats in Washington with some being representatives of Russian intelligence services are being expelled.
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14 Apr
Russian media reporting that US is canceling their 2 ships that were supposed to arrive in the Black Sea today. I really hope this isn't true
Will keep an eye on this and update. Looks like the ships are in Greece now and there is mixed reporting surrounding this
Two more outlets are reporting this now
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