Diplomats Fund Protest Groups, Says Moscow

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British diplomats in Moscow were yesterday accused by Russia's federal security service, the FSB, of spying and secretly channelling funds to independent human rights groups.

There was speculation that four embassy officials could be expelled from Russia, after a spokesman for the service - the successor of the Soviet-era KGB - told reporters that the situation would be resolved "at a political level".

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Diplomats Fund Protest Groups, Says Moscow

The Foreign Office said it was "concerned and surprised" at the allegations, insisting that the pounds 500,000 which the UK donates each year to nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) in Russia wa...

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