{"id":12527,"date":"2026-01-15T08:55:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=12527"},"modified":"2026-01-15T08:55:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:55:38","slug":"russia-expels-british-diplomat-over-allegations-of-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=12527","title":{"rendered":"Russia expels British diplomat over allegations of spying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"main-content\">\n<article>\n<figure>\n<div data-component=\"image-block\" class=\"sc-3b6b161a-0 eRlINq\">\n<div data-testid=\"hero-image\" class=\"sc-5340b511-1 cMIbKV\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.files.bbci.co.uk\/bbcdotcom\/web\/20260113-125315-2e65791d43-web-2.37.1-4\/grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img sizes=\"(min-width: 1280px) 50vw, (min-width: 1008px) 66vw, 96vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/240\/cpsprodpb\/f66c\/live\/30250fc0-f1e7-11f0-a422-4ba8a094a8fa.jpg.webp 240w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/f66c\/live\/30250fc0-f1e7-11f0-a422-4ba8a094a8fa.jpg.webp 320w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/f66c\/live\/30250fc0-f1e7-11f0-a422-4ba8a094a8fa.jpg.webp 480w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/640\/cpsprodpb\/f66c\/live\/30250fc0-f1e7-11f0-a422-4ba8a094a8fa.jpg.webp 640w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/800\/cpsprodpb\/f66c\/live\/30250fc0-f1e7-11f0-a422-4ba8a094a8fa.jpg.webp 800w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/cpsprodpb\/f66c\/live\/30250fc0-f1e7-11f0-a422-4ba8a094a8fa.jpg.webp 1024w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1536\/cpsprodpb\/f66c\/live\/30250fc0-f1e7-11f0-a422-4ba8a094a8fa.jpg.webp 1536w\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/f66c\/live\/30250fc0-f1e7-11f0-a422-4ba8a094a8fa.jpg.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"EPA-EFE\/REX\/Shutterstock A file image of the British Embassy in Moscow\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/><span class=\"sc-5340b511-2 jVqbAn\">EPA-EFE\/REX\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\" class=\"sc-3b6b161a-0 dPVOKT\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A British diplomat has been ordered to leave Russia, with officials accusing the man of being an intelligence agent working undercover at the embassy in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The man has been stripped of his accreditation and must leave the country within two weeks, Russia&#8217;s foreign ministry said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In a statement, the ministry added that it had summoned British charge d&#8217;affaires Danae Dholakia over the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The BBC has asked the Foreign Office for a response to the allegations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<aside data-testid=\"ohio-section-outer-3\" data-analytics-group=\"true\" data-analytics_group_type=\"ohio-3\" data-analytics_group_position=\"1\" data-analytics_group_item_count=\"3\" data-analytics_group_name=\"Related\" class=\"sc-4a8cfc24-1 gTecQp\"\/><\/div>\n<p>#Russia #expels #British #diplomat #allegations #spying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EPA-EFE\/REX\/Shutterstock A Bri&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}