{"id":83670,"date":"2016-12-30T03:51:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T03:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/obama-expels-35-alleged-russian-spies\/"},"modified":"2016-12-30T03:51:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T03:51:42","slug":"obama-expels-35-alleged-russian-spies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/obama-expels-35-alleged-russian-spies\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama expels 35 alleged Russian spies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"262\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/12 December\/30 Dec\/Rusia.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (SW): US President Barack Obama announced Thursday that two Russian compounds in Maryland and New York, used by Russian personnel for intelligence-related activities, will be closed.<\/p>\n<p>Access to the compounds will be denied to all Russian diplomats as of noon on Friday, &quot;The New York Times&quot; reported. The State Department also declared 35 Russian intelligence operatives &quot;persona non grata,&quot; meaning they must leave the country within 72 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Washington has accused the Russian military&#39;s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of hacking information with the intent to interfere with the US election. As part of the move, the US released a detailed analysis, conducted by the Department of Homeland Security and FBI, attributing the malicious cyber attacks to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow has rejected the accusations of hacking and cyber-interference, calling them &quot;unfounded,&quot; and warned it would consider retaliatory measures. Late Thursday, a Kremlin spokesperson said the US sanctions &quot;will destroy diplomatic relations with Russia.&quot; Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, signaled that Moscow was now considering retaliatory measures against the US.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): US President Barack Obama announced Thursday that two Russian compounds in Maryland and New York, used by Russian personnel for intelligence-related activities, will be closed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-83670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}