{"id":19627,"date":"2022-04-05T14:20:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T14:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=19627"},"modified":"2022-04-05T14:20:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T14:20:47","slug":"italy-expels-30-russian-diplomats-over-security-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/04\/05\/italy-expels-30-russian-diplomats-over-security-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy expels 30 Russian diplomats over security fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">Italy has expelled 30 Russian diplomats because of security concerns, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Tuesday, and Russia was set to retaliate, according to TASS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">A number of other Western governments have taken similar steps following Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">Italy summoned Russia&#8217;s ambassador to the foreign ministry on Tuesday to tell him that the diplomats were being expelled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-3\">&#8220;The measure is in agreement with other European and Atlantic partners and is necessary for reasons linked to our national security and in the context of the current crisis caused by the unjustified aggression against Ukraine on the part of the Russian Federation,&#8221; Di Maio said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-4\">Russia will give an appropriate response, TASS news agency quoted Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova as saying.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-4\">source: reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy has expelled 30 Russian diplomats because of security concerns, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Tuesday, and Russia was set to retaliate, according to TASS. A number of other Western governments have taken similar steps following Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine. Italy summoned Russia&#8217;s ambassador to the foreign ministry on Tuesday to tell him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[8440,5663,9505,5934,5345,5252,1392,6632,7693,3457,5217,5655,5180,3954],"class_list":["post-19627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-crisis","tag-diplomats","tag-european","tag-expelled","tag-foreign-minister","tag-invasion","tag-italy","tag-maria-zakharova","tag-national-security","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-security","tag-ukraine","tag-will"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}