Foreign Office expels Russian diplomat in tit-for-tat move after 'spying' row The Foreign Office has revoked the accreditation of a Russian diplomat after a British diplomat was expelled from Moscow last year.
It comes after the TASS state news agency in November said an employee of the British Embassy in Moscow had been stripped of his accreditation "for intentionally providing false information when entering the Russian Federation" and accused him of espionage.
A Foreign Office spokesperson said the Russian ambassador to the UK was summoned for a meeting with a senior British official to revoke the accreditation of the diplomat.
"This is in response to Russia's unprovoked and baseless decision to strip the accreditation of a British diplomat in Moscow in November," they said.
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