Russia has kicked out a British diplomat that Moscow has accused of spying.
The diplomat had his accreditation revoked and was told to leave the country in two weeks.
Russia’s counterintelligence agency, the FSB, claimed the British diplomat “provided false information about himself”.
Moscow also accused him of attempting to gather information about the Russian economy during informal meetings.
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The FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said it had detected an “undeclared intelligence presence”.
It added the diplomat was “carrying out intelligence and subversive activities that threaten the security of the Russian Federation”, according to Russian media.
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