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Washington has refused to hand out visas to a group of Russian diplomats, who are supposed to replace their colleagues who had been deported from the United States by the Obama administration in December 2016, that’s according to Russian Foreign Ministry spox Maria Zakharova, RIA Novosti reported.
"Not only has Washington failed to cancel the decision to expel our personnel, they also refuse to issue visas to those who have to come and replace them," RIA Novosti quoted Zakharova as saying.
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