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Sweden to expel three Russian diplomats, foreign minister says

FILE PHOTO: A general view of the Russian embassy in Stockholm, Sweden February 8, 2021. TT News Agency/Janerik Henriksson via REUTERS/File Photo

Sweden will expel three Russian diplomats who are not acting in accordance with international rules, Foreign Minister Ann Linde said on Tuesday.

"Today, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has ... decided to deport three Russian diplomats whose work in Sweden is not in accordance with the Vienna Convention," Linde told reporters.

(Reporting by Simon Johnson and Johan Ahlander; editing by Niklas Pollard)

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