Russia FM tells diplomats Moscow will not bow to ultimatums Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov welcomes back diplomats who have been expelled from the West over a spy poisoning row, telling them Russia will never "cave in to ultimatums". More than 150 Russian diplomats have been ordered out of the US, EU members, NATO countries and other nations in the wake of the poisoning of ex-double agent Sergei Skripal in England, a move that was met in kind by Moscow. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES