MOSCOW, Feb 17Deputy US Ambassador to Moscow Bart Gorman was expelled from Russia, Jason Rebholz, the press secretary of the diplomatic mission, told RIA Novosti. mentioned that in January the Deputy Russian Ambassador to Washington left the United States. According to him, this happened “as part of a regular diplomatic rotation, after the completion of his business trip in January.” At the same time, when a group of Russian diplomats left the States at the end of January, the State Department raised the question of the departure of Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov from Washington — if Moscow does not will issue visas to the guards of the head of the American diplomatic mission. 
January 23, 08:00The death of diplomacy: the United States destroys all rulesAccording to Rebholz, the United States long ago notified Russia about the rule of staying in the country for no longer than three years, and they warned about leaving six months. «In response, Russia demands from American diplomats that they leave well in advance before the expiration of the three-year stay, and gives them two weeks to leave, calling it similar measures. But this is not the same thing, «he said. The press officer added that Gorman had a valid visa, he stayed in Russia for less than three 
February 5, 21:46 The United States threatened to arrest Russian diplomats, Antonov Rebholz said called on Russia to «stop the unjustified expulsions of American diplomats and restore diplomatic missions.» Washington considers the incident with Gorman an «escalatory step» and is considering the possibility of retaliatory measures. «We note that Russia's actions have led to the fact that the American mission in Russia now has fewer diplomats than the Russian one in Washington. Our goal is greater parity and reciprocity in the work of our missions,» he said. At the same time, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov has repeatedly emphasized that the process of reducing the staff of diplomatic missions continues through no fault of Moscow. jpg» />December 13, 2021, 10:06The Foreign Ministry called the situation with Russian diplomatic property in the United States egregiousAs Antonov noted earlier, in the United States «persecution against Russian diplomats continues» and in this situation Moscow reserves the right to retaliate. He reported that in September Washington handed over to Moscow another list of diplomatic mission employees for expulsion: 27 of them were supposed to leave the States by January 30, another 28 by the end of June 2022. In June, after the summit of Presidents Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden in Geneva , Moscow and Washington have begun contacts on the issue of normalizing the work of the embassies, but, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, this process is «marking time» due to US attempts to put pressure on Russia.
January 22, 08:00A superpower that played too much
