Leicester Mercury

US Embassy hiring ban

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UNDER orders from the Kremlin, the US Embassy in Moscow has stopped employing Russians, cutting its consular staff by 75% and limiting many of its services.

The order went into effect yesterday, bringing the sharply deteriorat­ing US-Russia relationsh­ip to a personal level.

Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said the ban on local employees is in line with convention.

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