Moscow: On Wednesday, Russia openly declared that it was authorizing US embassy staff who had been in Moscow for more than three years to fly home by Jan. 31. The retaliatory action was taken as per the US’s decision to confine the tenures of Russian diplomats. “We … intend to respond correspondingly. U.S. embassy employees who have been in Moscow for more than three years must leave Russia by Jan. 31,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova declared in a briefing.
