Russia: blackmail Washington in evictions

moscow - Russia has accused Washington of putting other countries under pressure to mass-out diplomats. More than twenty Western countries deployed more than one hundred diplomats on Monday and Tuesday in response to an attack with nerve gas on a Russian former double spy in England.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that there are only 'few independent countries' left in Europe.

'If one or two diplomats are expelled from a country, which in the meantime whispers apologies in our ear, we know for sure that this is the result of colossal pressure, colossal blackmail, which unfortunately is now the most important tool of the US in the international field', the BBC quotes.