'UK expulsion of Russian diplomats political'

Moscow, July 23: Britain's expulsion of four Russian diplomats because Moscow refused to extradite a man suspected of murdering ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko was politically motivated, a senior Russian prosecutor said today.

Britain's reaction was 'plainly groundless, inappropriate, unjustified and lies exclusively in a political framework,' Alexander Zvyagintsev, Russia's deputy Prosecutor-General, told a news briefing.

''We refused extradition on the basis of the law.''

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