{"id":697520,"date":"2026-01-15T11:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/697520\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T11:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:24:14","slug":"russia-accuses-british-diplomat-of-spying-and-boots-them-out-of-country-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/697520\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia accuses British diplomat of spying and boots them out of country \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The statement also cautioned London against any \u201cescalation of the situation,\u201d threatening a \u201cdecisive \u2018mirror\u2019 response.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/MID_Russia\/72057\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> posted on the Russian Foreign Ministry\u2019s Telegram channel showed a person who appeared to be Dholakia leaving the ministry building amid chants of \u201cBritain is a terrorist country!\u201d from a crowd of several dozen demonstrators holding signs.<\/p>\n<p>A U.K. Foreign Office spokesperson said the U.K. is \u201ccarefully considering\u201d its response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not the first time the Kremlin has made malicious and baseless accusations against our staff. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir targeting of British diplomats comes out of desperation and actions like this undermine the basic conditions required for diplomatic missions to operate.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>This story was updated to include a quote from the U.K. Foreign Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The statement also cautioned London against any \u201cescalation of the situation,\u201d threatening a \u201cdecisive \u2018mirror\u2019 response.\u201d A video&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,1193,393,2002,4884,1144,332,9322,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-697520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-british-politics","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-espionage","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-northern-ireland","16":"tag-russia","17":"tag-russian-politics","18":"tag-scotland","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115898867014178396","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}