The Federation Council, the upper chamber of Russia’s parliament, on Friday barred British diplomats, including the ambassador, from entering its building. Speaking at a livestreamed session of the upper chamber’s rules committee on Friday, senator Grigory Karasin said that the ban was in response to a British decision to exclude Russian diplomats from its parliament. (https://whtc.com/2022/07/08/russian-parliaments-upper-house-bans-british-diplomats/) Britain’s Guardian newspaper on June 20 reported that Russian diplomats were banned from visiting the country’s parliament.
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