Russia may close US Consulate in St. Petersburg
Russia may close US Consulate in St. Petersburg
12:24, 28.03.2018

The Kremlin isn’t waiting around on its promised “reciprocal” response to America’s expulsion of 60 Russian diplomats and closure of Russia’s consulate in Seattle.

Moscow has promised to boot at least the same number of US officials and is drumming up attention over its consulate closure plans in an ingenious way: by asking for help from Twitter. The official Twitter account for the Russian embassy in the US put out a poll today (March 24), asking whether it should shutter America’s presence in St Petersburg, Vladivostok, or Yekaterinburg.

At the time of writing 46% of 4,456 votes had gone to St Petersburg, 34% to Yekaterinburg, and 20% to Vladivostok.

The US made the moves as part of a coordinated Western retaliation to the alleged poisoning of British agent Sergei Skripal on UK soil. Fourteen EU countries, plus Ukraine and Canada also expelled Russian diplomats.

The White House said it closed the Seattle consulate because of its proximity to a US submarine base and the Boeing headquarters. It says that all 60 expelled Russian diplomats were cloaked spies.





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