MOSCOW—Russia will expel U.S. and European diplomats and close the U.S. consulate general in St. Petersburg in response to measures taken against Russia over its alleged role in the poisoning of a former double agent in England. The Russian measures, announced Thursday by the Russian Foreign Ministry, follow the coordinated expulsion ordered this week of more than 130 Russian diplomats from the U.S. and European countries, after the U.K. government said Russia was responsible for the use of a military-grade nerve agent in...

Source: Wall Street Journal March 29, 2018 17:38 UTC