NEWSLINK: “Expelled from Russia, U.S. diplomats bid a wistful farewell (video)” – Washington Post/Amie Ferris-Rotman

“… Set to the tunes of a country music band from North Carolina, the video features eight of the 60 Americans kicked out of Russia in the latest tit for tat between Moscow and the West. The escalation began last month when a former Russian double agent and his daughter were poisoned on British soil with a Soviet-designed nerve agent. Britain and its allies expelled more than 150 Russian diplomats in retaliation for the poisoning, the first known use of such a chemical weapon in Europe since World War II. Moscow flatly denies involvement in the poisoning and has suggested that British intelligence was involved. …”