The UK said earlier this month it would not send ministers or members of the Royal Family to the football tournament.
EU countries that have said they have no intention of expelling diplomats include Austria, Greece and Portugal, although all have said they support the UK and condemn the poisoning.
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President of the European Council Donald Tusk said the EU states had decided to expel Russian diplomats as a direct result of a meeting, held last week about the Salisbury poisoning.
It called the attack an “outrageous violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention and breach of international law”.
The US is expelling 48 envoys at the Russian embassy in Washington and 12 more at the UN in New York. It will also order the closure of the Russian consulate in Seattle[/URL].
Is it the 1986 Moscow Olympics that were boycotted .Cold War dick measuring contest continues. @Deorro the adverts have taken the space of writing replies when using the phone. Rekembisha
His foreign affairs minister says the policy on reprocity takes effect.
For each of their diplomat expelled, a similar number is sent back to the expelling country.
Am not sure who’s the winner in all this or who will blink 1st.
Please let it be true, let england and the usa boycott it and save us the time of watching them flop as usual. Beside the collective coaching teams of their players will be silently happy. Rashford, Lingard and Young have already played 60 games this season. A red line area where injuries and lack of form sets in.
It’s a cultural-political war they are losing. They don’t want that world cup because it exposes westerners (& the westernized) to Russia & the Russia that Putin has managed to build.
They want to avoid that cultural exchange because it’ll eventually lead to Russia being seen by the rest of the world as a possible, reasonable, reliable ally (I use this term sparingly).
Also…Sukhois rule!
True, President Putin has rebuilt Russia and hosting the World Cup is a statement to the rest of the world that its mojo is back. The 12 cities that host it have been upgraded to anything the west can offer. Public transport, healthcare, utilities, housing, infrastructure, security and social facilities. Russia has done it under 2 decades without exploitation of resources from other nations.
