Russia has declared press secretary of the US Embassy in Moscow Rebecca Ross persona non grata and has included her in the list of the ten US diplomats whom Russia will expel from the country in response to a similar act of the US government.

Asked why the press secretary was included in the black list, the source of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs made it clear that this is a mirrored response to the US government’s actions that haven’t been letting Russia fill the vacancy of press secretary of the Embassy of Russia in Washington for over six months, Kommersant writes.